Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This one cost about $80,000, but when they're in production they'll be available for under 30." The girl playing secretary seemed to be having fun juggling her set of telephones and picking out records for her boss. Her biggest job seemed just to smile, but she also answered questions...
...outrage was largely dissipated and the vote anticlimactic. His own bosses, slow to give him high rating, only last year made him a full member of the Central Committee. Later he accompanied B. & K. on their laughing-boy journey through India and Burma, and was seen on occasion to smile himself...
...that the neorealist school of moviemakers had formed a gloom brigade that was ruining the foreign market for Italian films, the Italian government forced its state-subsidized movie industry to lower standards and raise skirts. Nevertheless, in Gold of Naples, Director De Sica has managed to say with a smile what he could not have said with a sneer. The four stories are variations on the same theme of human bondage that De Sica develops in all his serious films, and he plays his variations with no less passion and poetic irony because he is playing them for laughs...
...cowering Communists inside the sedan. Hands thrust up a crude red banner. In German it proclaimed: "Pfui to Communist Bloodhounds." Below was a roughly inked figure dangling from gallows: "Kadar." "How much did you get from the Russians?" roared one young man. "You come here to smile but at home you are killing the people," spat an old woman. "We don't want to see our children's hangmen," yelled another...
...dazed; then the lines of her face altered in a slow, rippling transformation. Her hands dropped lightly from her head to her lap. She relaxed into an attitude of comfort that Dr. Thigpen had never seen before. Her blue eyes opened wide and sparkled. She gave a quick, restless smile. In a bright, unfamiliar voice, she said: "Hi there, Doc!" Everything about her had become coquettishly provocative...