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...actors on the stage who never sacrifics the meaning of her lines to their poetry. Joel Crothers as Romeo has but two strings to his harp: he either smiles the ingenuous smile of a toothpaste advertisement or pouts like a child denied his lollypop. The volume of his voice occasionally rises, but instead of the anger or anguish which should pour out at those moments, there comes merely a trickle of peevishness...

Author: By Allan Katz, | Title: Romeo and Juliet | 4/20/1961 | See Source »

...Lolita, many a reader who mixes some books with his comic strips is convinced that a teen-ager now raising temperatures in Dick Tracy (416 papers) is closely related, indeed, to the nimble nymphet. Slinky and scheming beyond her years, Popsie is fond of putting down her lollypop and bussing the cheek of Headache, a slot-machine maker who is not above bussing back. Cries Headache: "Owoo! That lollypop!" The very suggestion that Popsie and Lolita and Headache and Humbert are parallels draws howls of aggrieved outrage from Cartoonist Chester Gould who says he has never even read Nabokov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sisters Under the Skin? | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...securely stuffed into some far distant locker along with a soggy, twelfth grade gym suit. As I read on I realized we were indeed being patted on the head in much the same manner as one might ruffle the hair of a four year old after snatching his lollypop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ANSWER TO AL | 10/9/1956 | See Source »

...best engineering, mathematical, and psychological talent that toymakers could muster. Nevertheless, many of the new toys will be a gamble. Reason: children often show complete lack of interest in what toymakers and psychologists think they will like. Example: a new teething toy was carefully designed so that 1) its lollypop colors were most attractive, 2) it could be gripped in five different places, 3) it was scientifically measured to fit a baby's hand. So far U.S. babies have shown that they can take it or leave it alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOYS: Whee! | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...medium used only an aluminum megaphone. When she held it to her breast, Garland heard a high squeaky voice. He rigged up an amplifier, shut the medium in a room where she could not hear what he asked the spirits. Once he put a lollypop in her mouth so she could not talk for them. The spirits squeaked on. Garland conversed with ghosts of Henry Fuller, an old friend, Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Jack London ("Why not Columbus?" asked one irritated ghost). Violet Parent and an assortment of dead Indians, padres and conquistadors, who told him where more crosses could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spirited | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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