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...gave the show away. For Benny was never a great creator. Even on TV his gift was that of an actor who wraps himself in other people's material. His props were inflections, pauses and reactions. In his mouth, "Well!" could express a thesaurus of repartee; a Benny "Yipe!" could wring laughter from a stone. Benny might have enjoyed a film career as durable as Bob Hope's. As the Polish ham in Ernst Lubitsch's wartime comedy, To Be or Not to Be, the comedian gave one of the screen's classic performances. Indeed, British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Master of Silence | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

...boom bah, yippeda, yippeda, yipe. Yo ho heave ho, bibbedy, boppety, boo poop be doo dah. Zippy poo bang wow joo gee pow, pow pow, pow. Yap, sap, flap, trap, blap, bongada bongada...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memento Morey | 11/20/1965 | See Source »

...little old lady who came around selling fairy stories. When he barked, she cackled crazily and said: "I know it's you, you nasty man. May you bark till you find somebody who loves you." The villain smirked disdainfully and went right on barking, but in a minute-yipe! The slumlord physically became the cur he essentially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Always Good for an Arf | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

Lassie (as Weatherwax signals): "Yipe Yipe! Yipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Almost Human | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

Three yips and a yipe! Yes, sir, the season's open! Amid loud cheers and yells, Harvard's Polar Bear Club broke the ice late Sunday evening at its first official outing of the year--a swim in the ocean at Revere Beach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Face Freezing Foam For First Frigid Frolic | 10/7/1941 | See Source »

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