Word: mannerisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admire these days, but it is still in fine fettle; at 34, she makes 21 look ridiculous. The smile that reassures nervous males ("It's all right, I'm not real") has never been more dazzling. And the comic counterpoint of fleshy grandeur and early Shirley Temple manner is better than ever. But despite Mrs. Miller, the film is not really good low humor. It is merely good-humored. Co-Star Yves Montand, the French music hall singer, is urbane and masculine, but he seems constrained by a part that requires him to pretend...
...chairman the following year of The American Tobacco Co.; of a heart attack; in Mount Kisco, N.Y. Born in Sicily, Riggio was a $3-a-week Manhattan pantsmaker at 14, got a job selling Pall Malls in 1905. Possessed of a fluent tongue, an active imagination and a driving manner, Riggio was chosen to introduce Lucky Strikes in 1917, replaced flamboyant George Washington Hill as American Tobacco's president...
...been a spirit of cooperation on the U.N.'s part." As if to explain away his troops' attacks on U.N. personnel, he shouted, "We are obsessed with the idea of immediately entering Katanga and liberating our brothers!" Then, waving a wad of yellow "membership cards" in a manner reminiscent of the late Joe McCarthy, he charged that the Belgians had formed a private army to aid Moise Tshombe, Premier of the secessionist Congo province of Katanga...
Lost Garden. Bawdy in manner and ironic in detail, The Sot-Weed Factor i that rare literary creation-a genuinely serious comedy. Author Barth, 30, assistant professor of English at Penn State, is clearly fascinated with the multiple facets of reality and just as clearly convinced that the real is unknowable. "No man is what or whom I take him for!" cries Ebenezer wildly, and indeed the Poet Virgin cannot even penetrate the "vasty reaches" of himself. Unlike Candide, he cannot cultivate his garden, because he is too lost in philosophic speculation to understand that the garden is there...
...angry citizen and voter. Everyone knows that TIME likes the Republican Party-you say so yourself, and it is your privilege and prerogative to like whomever you please. But it is not your right, as a public news medium, to report the events in such a slanted, one-sided manner as to make one party appear all "white" and the other appear "black...