Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SLUNK with a shy smile into the embassy drawing room. The smoke-filled hall was an epitome of sophistication, dark suits, military uniforms, low-cut dowdy dresses, foreign correspondents with R.A.F. moustaches, and a large contingent of nervous Egyptian diplomats. It was possible in a flash to spot where the important people were gathered, for not an American or foreign correspondent was in immediate sight-it is only necessary at these affairs to track the Moscow press like sucker fish to locate the big sharks at once. I went into the next room. Suddenly, as if the smoke...
...ironist in Anouilh may jab the romantic in places, the cynic nowhere throttles him. On the contrary, Anouilh piles gilt on the gingerbread, and gives Cinderella her Prince Charming without any rushing from ballrooms or bother of trying on shoes. Indeed, if there is anything of a crooked smile to Anouilh's pretty nothing, it is in his playing it so almost completely straight...
Carped the New York Journal-American's Jack O'Brian: "Crosby seemed to smile as if in constant pain. Closeups presented his face with a seemingly endless mouth and large lips which seemed to be pulled vertically apart as if with unseen strings." The Daily News's mild Ben Gross proposed that John "do something to control his twitching." The San Francisco Chronicle's Terrence O'Flaherty found him "nervous as an unprepared high-school valedictorian." And Variety spelled it out: "He forgot entire sentences and cues. He's far too deadpan...
...twin gifts of perfect stage presence and quiet audience courtship, the jaunty, pinpointed song-and-dance-man skill of the vaudeville era. He knows every last little hop, skip and jump, and nudge, bop and scram; he is master of the soft shoe, the dead pan, the faraway smile. As Rumple, a newspaper-cartoon character in danger of extinction because his creator has lost the power to portray him, he fights for survival with tactics that happily are more Foy than...
Brewer suggested playing the match today, but Schomer preferred to postpone it until next year. "It just goes to show you can't trust a Yalie, not even one from the Divinity School," Brewer said with a smile...