"If something had gone wrong, it would all have been over, " Julio Luaces, now 76, remembers with a grimace.

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The whole fried fish arrives at your table in a pot of seasoned broth, its body curled into a dramatic C-shape, its face clenched in a grimace.

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Kansas State had two-tone purple uniforms that looked like Barney sharing a bunk-bed with Grimace.

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As a former oped section editor, I grimace at the omissions and fronts that mask so many self-interested expressions.

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And then he dipped a horsehair toothbrush in a yellow box of bicarbonate of soda and assaulted his grimace in the spotted mirror hanging over the washstand, amusing himself by rhyming: Gerardus M.

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In his black leather jacket, Duris is an anxious little hot shot with a twitchy, feral snarl that comes close to the reflexive grimace of the dangerous young Jean-Louis Trintignant.

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