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...fact, it serves only as a frame on which to hang a few clever lines, and, at least on opening night, the timing on these lines was not particularly good. M. Tapan (Paul Benedict) and Mme. Tapan (Jo Lane) both nearly save the show with their marvelous facial expressions and perfect comic gestures...
Lloyd suffered a fractured skull and facial lacerations but is expected to recover without permanent injury, according to a doctor in the University Health Services...
Harrington has been in Europe for the past ten months (he went abroad "to escape American life"), and displays a charming sense of humor when he describes the trip. In Paris, where he studied and wrote, Harrington adopted the innocently beguiling facial expressions of the French. He loves to tell anecdotes about experiences both here and abroad. He mentioned, for example, an article written in Pravda on the occasion of the Russian publication of The Other America. With obvious delight, Harrington quoted sections from the article: "Although Mr. Harrington is a bourgeois revisionist, he has portrayed the United States accurately...
...factories list "energy" and "personality" as the main criteria for judging prospects. Some "white-shoe outfits" (so called because white bucks were once standard footgear on Ivy League campuses) still cherish a preference for an upper-class family background. It also helps to be free of conspicuous eccentricities: a facial tic, a squeaky voice or a gaudy necktie can bar a bright applicant, and even too much library pallor may arouse suspicion. In response to a Harvard Law School questionnaire on what it was looking for in graduates, a New York firm curtly replied, "Byron White." The name alone conjured...
...stone stairs of the London primary school. Derision and clownish aggression is the prechivalric code between the nonsexes. There are friendships of Byronic intensity and power alliances of Renaissance intricacy. The tormented teaching staff is examined through a child's merciless eye for dandruff, horse teeth, injustice and facial tics. One of them (the one with the horse teeth) has the pedagogic foible-enchanting to the young-of hanging them by the heels to demonstrate vulgar fractions...