Word: snickers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Groza, the dean of place kickers and top point scorer (with 1,404) in football history. At 40, Groza cuts a comical figure as he waddles onto the field -belly hanging over the waist of his practically padless pants. But the players don't snicker. A proud perfectionist who boots 30 or more field goals a day in practice, Groza hit on 15 out of 23 field goals last year...
...even while pushing Doctor No into the radioactive heavy water. Now that streak of sadistic cruelty which endeared the written Bond to all Harvard Walter Mittys appears in all its glory. We grin as the movie Bond slams the hood of a truck on one villain's hand. We snicker as he slaps luscious Daniela Bianchi around a compartment on the Orient Express. We cheer as he dumps a non-swimmer into the Adriatic with the valediction "This just isn't your...
...paneling, cracking plaster and flaking paint, Moscow's eight-year-old Ukraine Hotel looks almost as if it had been built for Mosfilm's movie of War and Peace. While party officials sing the praises of Orgalit, a kind of Red Masonite widely used for doors, Muscovites snicker: "Builders stick to it-but door handles...
...famous face and hopes for the best. He seldom gets it. Loren looks stupid in a stupid part. Schell, in a role demanding virility and violence, behaves like a hysterical girl. March, for want of anything better to play, plays March. Wagner at least gives the customers something to snicker at. His sunny California accent sounds gloriously silly in foggy old Hamburg, and when he walks in to take over the family firm, he looks wildly out of place. It's as if Prince Valiant had come barging, bright-eyed and brainless, into the big board room at General...
...Mehta's approach is refreshingly direct. Although he has been blind since the age of three, he courageously taught himself to navigate the world without benefit of cane or canine, studied at Pomona College and Oxford. Stopping off in London recently, and finding philosophers bickering and historians snicker-sneering at each other from behind the learned journals, he resolved to talk to them all and see what the fuss was about...