Word: smilin
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...refreshing reversal. The Americans tend to blend into an indistinguishable potbellied mob. It is the Orientals who are individuals. Admiral Yamamoto (Soh Yamamura) is Eskimo-like in appearance, stoical in practice, goaded by an affliction no leader can afford: doubt. Lieut. Commander Fuchida (Takahiro Tamura) is an Oriental Smilin' Jack, all jaw and strut. Ambassador Nomura (Shogo Shimada), present in Washington when the bombs fell, is the same shrunken cipher who appeared in all the newsreels. It is he who bears the verbal assault delivered by Cordell Hull, played by George Macready, one of the few performers capable...
...play things like Ring-a-leevio, Three Feet to Germany, Johnny on the Pony," says Gould. But he excelled at flipping trading cards bought by the fistful down at Irving's Candy Store. "There were Smilin' Jack cards, baseball cards, World War II cards with General MacArthur and the bombing of Tokyo on them," he recalls fondly. But mastery of card flipping and having his own charge account at Irving's were not enough. Gould was terribly conscious of "a degree of vulnerability, of not wanting to make a fool of myself. I didn't feel abnormal, but I certainly...