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  • And Otto Schenk's alternately literal and winkingly playful "Die Zauberflöte" (VAI 4520) from 1964 makes for an entertaining show, too (with the exception of some eye-bugging, blackface business that's a wince-inducing relic of that era).

    New DVDs let you savor 1960s Salzburg Festival productions of Mozart operas 2010

  • A new Tumblr blog -- entitled Faces of the Last Season of Oprah -- is determined to capture every eye-bugging, tear-flowing, jaw-slackened image along the way.

    'The Oprah Winfrey Show' and its many faces 2010

  • He had the grief of Lillian Gish, the grim sorrow of William S. Hart, the eye-bugging intensity of Valentino -- everything but the humor of Chaplin, because the man did not have one intentional funny bone in his body.

    Susie Bright: Good Old-Fashioned Drug and Sex Education 2008

  • For those of you not familiar with the original Dragon, Sho'Nuff was played with eye-bugging glee by the late Julius Carry, in a performance that could only be described as a precursor for every Samuel L. Jackson role ever.

    Samuel L. Jackson Will Yell in his New Movie 2008

  • So the GOP is going the eye-bugging, balls to the walls, scare the crap out of the voter route with their new national ad: Republicans took a page from President Johnson's Cold War-era presidential campaign with an advertisement set to air this weekend called "The Stakes," which prominently features al Qaeda leaders threatening to kill Americans.

    October 2006 2006

  • On the walls of the houses were stencilled eye-bugging portraits of Mussolini, with hand-painted “vivas,” the double V in black paint with drippings of paint down the wall.

    The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway 1953

  • .. the Moreland Effect intense eye-bugging and a comical hummina-hummina-hummina expression, which communicates to the forces of evil an unfortunate and fatal vulnerability.

    31 Screams: Olga Bisera Arbogast 2008

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