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...blouses for 1½ pence per. He and his half brother Sydney had gone the rounds of London's forbidding schools for the destitute. Chaplin's great creation is a waif in the tradition of Pip and Oliver and David Copperfield. Like Dickens, Chaplin never forgot the wink of the pavement and the leer of the gutter. Also like Dickens, he was enchanted with radical politics -at a proper distance. In fact, despite his sponsorship of Soviet-American friendship meetings and loud avowal of Stalinist causes, Chaplin was the kind of political naif who would only fellow-travel...
Where did the author get this previously unrecorded conversation? Was it a line overheard by J.F.K.'s chauffeur? A scene invented by Prescott in the throes of madness? A wink to the initiated? Only the late Julian Prescott, alas, could have said for sure...
...commission will continue to wink at what it calls "traditionally accepted puffery"-for example, a manufacturer claiming that its product "tastes great!" But any advertiser who makes factually inaccurate or misleading claims will risk an FTC complaint order as well as bad publicity. The commission will make its findings public, and admen foresee many legal battles over FTC interpretations of truth and deception...
...Ameche wink, and smirk, "howdy like to take me home with...
...three novellas comprising The Watcher, all of which predate Cosmicomics, Peter Pan is grounded. This earlier Calvino may not have been quite ready for a tragic mask, but his wink is closer to a tic and his grin is spastic. The title story unwinds like an old Vittorio De Sica film in slow motion. A member of the Communist Party, Amerigo Ormea is assigned to be an election watcher at the Cottolengo Hospital for Incurables in Turin. As Amerigo officiously keeps the morons and vegetable cases from being recorded as Christian Democrat votes, Calvino demonstrates ironically that the Catholic Church...