The narrator takes an instant dislike to the unfortunate-looking Ridley ( " pouchy, pallid, pig-eyed and all but lipless, indistinctly hulking in her lurid, swishing leisure gear " ) and worries that she is intent on sinking " her jaws into my little life " with " all the vigor of a hyena at carrion ."
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He is among the first to discover that the object is an artificial cylinder that opens, disgorging Martians who are " big " and " greyish " with " oily brown skin ", " the size, perhaps, of a bear ", each with " two large dark-coloured eyes ", and lipless " V-shaped mouths " which drip saliva and are surrounded by two " Gorgon groups of tentacles ".
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When Robin Williams withholds emotion, he becomes a blank, buttoned-up automaton, the creepy antithesis of his repellent, bleeding-heart clown in a movie like " Patch Adams . " For most of " The Final Cut, " the star confronts the world wearing the same mask of sunken eyes and lipless mouth clenched in a straight line that he put on in " One Hour Photo . " Imagine Buster Keaton as the world's most constipated undertaker.
