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Cohn's snarl and Schine's lurking smirk qualify them for Madame Tussaud's . . . Sad, sad days are these, when Ike, Dulles, Wilson et al. hide while two juvenile delinquents such as these ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 5, 1954 | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...tactics that McCarthy might use on Stevens in an open hearing. Fighting Bob barked back: "I'm not going to have my officers browbeaten." McCarthy snapped back with another attack on Zwicker: "I'm not going to sit there and see a supercilious bastard sit there and smirk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Oak & the Ivy | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...Russell does a frenetic, blond-wigged imitation of Marilyn and, surrounded by a beefcake chorus of athletes, sings Anyone Here for Love? in fine deadpan style. Sample dialogue: First Athlete: "If the ship hits an iceberg and sinks, which girl would you save from drowning?" Second Athlete with a smirk: "Those girls couldn't drown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 27, 1953 | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

Thereupon Malaparte proceeds, with crude but cruel satiric effect, to lead a number of U.S. officers (and indirectly his readers too) on a macabre tour through the gutters of wartime Naples. He shows mothers who sell their children into prostitution; but then, says Malaparte with a smirk, there are also the children who would gladly sell their mothers. He dwells for part of a chapter on a street peopled with twisted female dwarfs, who fed, he asserts gleefully, on the unnatural lusts of the American ranks. Another chapter is concerned with a visit to a shop that sells blonde merkins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseiling Nausea | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...partner happens to remark during the planning session that "Holland's the boss." Holland leans back in his chair, looks at his companions, and says, "Yes, I am the boss." It's a good line, delivered with a good smirk, and there's no improving on that. In fact, it would be hard to improve on Guiness' performance at any point in the picture...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/7/1951 | See Source »

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