In the past, such beetle-browed heavyweights as Broderick Crawford, Ernest Borgnine, and Bob Hoskins have played Hoover.

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But Howard Hughes, strange, shy, intense and beetle-browed, fell in love with them, and decided that much of the money he was dispensing through Hollywood in the 1940s should go towards advancing them.

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Two years ago another Harvard researcher, Tanya Smith, found that by the time we first faced our beetle-browed cousins, their childhoods were not only briefer than ours, they were shrinking possibly an evolutionary "effort" to continue the species by getting to childbearing age sooner.

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It was a sedan, j'accuse, and it was kind of brutal to look at: lantern-jawed, heavy-browed, beetle-backed, and just plain big.

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