Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that they could capture New York's City Hall just by looking pious and letting nature take its course. Their blueprint for victory was simplicity itself. A disciplined Tammany hand named Vincent Impellitteri, who became temporary mayor after Bill O'Dwyer's hurried resignation, was to smile frequently, keep his mouth shut, fight down ambition, and step back into obscurity when Tammany...
Sometime next spring Lady Anderson hopes to have Atomica played by a professional orchestra. Meanwhile, Founder Howorth is dreaming of the day when she can stage Isotopia at the Albert Hall. "We would have room there," she explained with a hectic smile, "for all the 92 transmutations of the atom. Then we could have the explosion...
...worth what it cost. A product of Rembrandt's last, dirt-poor years, it glowed with a human warmth and depth that his earlier, slicker works lacked. The sitter's pensive, bloodshot eyes pierced the murk in which Rembrandt had muffled him; his melancholy, tight little smile reminded some visitors of the Mono, Lisa. Like her, the Young Man seemed to be silently inviting the spectator to enter the timeless, painted world in which he stood...
...book is a minute, detailed description of the Hiss case as it developed before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and as it was argued before two juries. In an abstracted style Mr. Cooke notes the attitudes of the House Committee members, Mr. Murphy's failure to smile, the postures of Lloyd Paul Stryker, defense attorney in the first trial. He spends pages, with liberal quotations from the record, giving the arguments on both sides of the most minute points. And he estimates the reaction of spectators to each argument...
...involves Burt Lancaster as the Treasury man who catches 880, and Dorothy Maguire as a U.N. interpreter who had little to do with the original story at all. Lancaster handles a wide range of emotion by wrinkling his forehead (sincerity), rolling his eyes (bewilderment), and flashing a hair-trigger smile (most everything else); Miss Maguire is hyperthyroid. What saves the picture is the warm and careful performance of Edmund Gwenn as old 880, and the richness of McKelway's material. This material was good before the screen writers got to it, however, and they could have turned an entertaining movie...