He is known for his bow ties he has hundreds and his horn-rimmed glasses.

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The doctor was a tall but stooped man in his seventies, with a gray goatee and black horn-rimmed glasses.

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Behind the large horn-rimmed glasses the eyes were kind, but challenging.

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"You can take a girl, put her hair in a bun, add horn-rimmed glasses and low-heeled shoes, flatten out her chest and her behind, and you've got a school librarian, " Ford executive Seymour Marshak proudly told the Detroit Free Press.

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The heavy-set writer in the horn-rimmed glasses teamed up on television with Gene Siskel to create a format for criticism that proved enormously appealing in its simplicity: uncomplicated reviews that were both intelligent and accessible and didn't talk down to ordinary movie fans.

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In the new movie, the glasses become time frames: Oldman has one pair, horn-rimmed, to show that we are in flashback, with Smiley still working for Control, and another, larger pair to make it clear that we have skipped ahead.

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