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  • Many things are remarkable about the film but perhaps the most subtle is the fact that our Blimpian hero called Clive Candy, VC looks precisely like a Blimp right down to the outrageous moustache and walrusy face and yet he is nothing of the sort.

    Michael Giltz: Movies: "Blimp" Is Back! British Gem Is Beautifully Restored Michael Giltz 2011

  • Many things are remarkable about the film but perhaps the most subtle is the fact that our Blimpian hero called Clive Candy, VC looks precisely like a Blimp right down to the outrageous moustache and walrusy face and yet he is nothing of the sort.

    Michael Giltz: Movies: "Blimp" Is Back! British Gem Is Beautifully Restored Michael Giltz 2011

  • Mailer Estate representative Larry Schiller, meanwhile, the movie producer who brokered the Lennon deal with Simon & Schuster, was described as “an unkempt man in a wet, walrusy sort of way, with a mouthful of protruding teeth and a beard that I can only guess was meant to give him a certain Hemingway dash that no one would otherwise remotely associate him with.”

    Swayze Scores Big Memoir, But Will Two Books on Dirty Dancer Be Too Many? 2009

  • Mailer Estate representative Larry Schiller, meanwhile, the movie producer who brokered the Lennon deal with Simon & Schuster, was described as “an unkempt man in a wet, walrusy sort of way, with a mouthful of protruding teeth and a beard that I can only guess was meant to give him a certain Hemingway dash that no one would otherwise remotely associate him with.”

    Swayze Scores Big Memoir, But Will Two Books on Dirty Dancer Be Too Many? 2009

  • His walrusy appearance which makes the bottom of his face look fierce, is counteracted by the kindness of his little eyes.

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932

  • Pylypchuk's sloppy little elephants, wild cats, snakes and other animals are spending a merry moment at the beach trashing their cans of beer on the sand and snorting voraciously cocaine from the belly of a big (and probably too drunk to notice) walrusy.

    we make money not art 2009

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