Word: teethe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Bogart lights a cigarette on the screen, girls respond with big, sexy sighs. Bogart alone could save the tobacco industry if there were only enough Radcliffe girls and Harvard boys to fill the nation. "It's that special way Bogey grits his teeth, then parts his lips and sort of hisses that makes it so great," explains Ciji Ware, a Radcliffe senior whose favorite swain, as she calls him, is Ted Landreth, the Harvard boy who in turn best imitates the way Bogey smoked. "Bogey," she insists, "is everything we wish Harvard-men were, in addition to what...
...cultural snobs who fear nothing so much as being accused of having no taste; and a few perplexed commoners who actually try to read the book in question. "You expect to bite into juicy pulp," one confesses shamefacedly (and in secret) to a friend, "and you break your teeth on hard metal...
...sits silently in his wheelchair through eighty minutes of tension in the War Room. Then, five minutes before the world and the movie end, Strangelove bursts into sadistic glee. He spits out macabre suggestions for preserving human life in mine shafts, smiles hideously behind his dark glasses, clicks his teeth together rapidly, and finally breaks into a series of spasmodic "Heil Hitler...
Died. Marc Blitzstein, 58, satiric composer who jolted even the class-conscious '30s with his pro-labor operetta, The Cradle Will Rock, mellowed slightly after the war (he renounced Communism in 1949, the year his opera Regina appeared), but kept a spare set of sharks' teeth pearly white, dear, for the English adaptation of Brecht's Threepenny Opera, which ran six years off-Broadway, made a jukebox gigolo of Mack the Knife; in Fort-de-France, Martinique, where police charged three sailors with beating him to death...
...Last year I stopped smoking. After six months, I wound up an overweight nervous wreck, suffering from compulsive eating habits, extreme tension, unexplained chest cramps, a sudden rush of gum and teeth problems, and facing a costly replacement in clothing. Two months ago, I resumed smoking and the chest and dental problems promptly vanished, I am losing the excess poundage, eat normally, and most of the tension has departed...