Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert Tonis, Chief of the University Police, symbolizes the force's two sides. For 27 years, he was an F.B.I. agent and a supervisor of criminal investigation in the Boston Region. Tall and rugged, he can rattle off the where's, who's, and how's of gangland murders in a jargon that makes Eliot Nesse sound like Little Joe Cartwright...
...scandalously than he does himself. He is a droll troll, a neurotic elf, a Freudian slip with legs. His basic problem, he says, is living up to his image of himself as an intellectual Gary Grant, which is not easy "when one is from Flatbush, stands just 51 feet tall, weighs 123 pounds, can't see any too well, and has a head of odd-looking red hair." To compensate, he bites his nails, and when his supply runs out, "I bite the nails of loved ones...
...Because tall, athletically built Kurt Lotz is long on organization and diplomacy but short on knowledge of automaking, he will work in Nordhoff's shadow for almost two years, learning the complexities of the worldwide company. Nordhoff is not scheduled to step aside until...
Interviewers from the magazine came to the 'Cliffe yesterday to screen the more than 30 girls who responded to a call for tall, comely types. The long straight haired ones were preferred, but others were welcome "if photogenic...
...second jarring element in conception is the casting of physically small actors to play big characters. Given the necessity of using cleanshaven students for Irish laborers, Hamlin might at least have found tall students, and ones with deep voices. Toby Hurd as Jack Clitheroe (a bricklayer) is so implausible physically that the intensity of his performance goes for naught. M.D. Schlesinger, as Peter Flynn, must rely on a strictly musical-comedy set of old man's gestures which destroy the conviction of every scene...