Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doctor's Verdict. But Kurt Schumacher was bound to resist the West, too. Speaking with the defiant snarl that often makes his mildest statements sound like ravings, reacting violently where a milder response might ease his way, he has made it hard for Westerners to trust him. In speech after speech, he attacked the West -first for having no policy, then for adopting a policy he did not like...
Women with Talons. The most striking feature of these stories, which are typical of most of the others in the book, is that they all seem to have been written by the same author. Except when they are wound up in a woolly snarl of technological jargon, they all employ one voice-that of the '203 and '303 tough guy, bounded on the rough side by "Huh," and on the smooth by slick patter ("Her voice was like _ a cello bowed up near the bridge"). All the objects of numbed horror are interchangeable, whether they are masked women...
Nothing but Color. In public, Cézanne was a granitic misanthrope who could snarl through his snarled beard: "Compared to me, my compatriots are asses. I detest them all." Privately, he was racked with self-doubt: "I am a timid man, a bohemian, and people laugh at me." Late in life, he confessed that his painting had "made some progress. Why so late and so painfully...
Within 15 minutes of the Assembly vote that felled them, Premier René Pleven and his cabinet ministers sped to the presidential palace in their official black cars and submitted their resignations to President Vincent Auriol, getting into their usual traffic snarl in the courtyard. Then they rushed back to carry on their cabinet assignments as before, until a new cabinet emerged...
...plot leads inevitably to a snarl of identity between the two cowboys, both played by Howard Keel. But the picture picks up most of its fun en route, in the desperate connivance and tart wisecracks of MacMurray and McGuire, the elaborate innocence of Callaway's double, the real Smoky's talent for caching liquor so cleverly that he stays bewilderingly plastered throughout his alcoholic cure. Hopalong, however, need not call the sheriff. Callaway bares its teeth only to grin, not to bite; and it provides parents with welcome comic relief from the hoofbeats that have invaded...