Word: brows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demurs occasionally. "Leg broke." When he is on his feet, stares are unavoidable. "I am a good-looking guy," he agrees kindly. "What size shoes do you wear?" strangers wonder. "You want to buy me a pair?" he smiles. They are only 15 1/2s. Bol's ebony brow may appear furrowed, but those are scratches from a puberty rite that, more than the sleeping lion he once killed with a spear, confirmed his courage. He laughs easily when his spindly fingers wrap twice around an ordinary hand...
...look of the superfit, the whites of their eyes blue white, calves plumped out like loving cups, dazzling teeth set in gums that probably will never know the heartbreak of gingivitis. Skoko had the look of a man grown weary with this age, and the knit of his brow suggested an approaching squall line...
...adventures, syndicated in more than 500 newspapers, until retiring in 1977; in Woodstock, Ill. Gould drew his original inspiration from Prohibition-era gangsterism and the new folk heroes of law enforcement: J. Edgar Hoover's G-men. Gould's wonderfully nasty, physiognomically named villains--Flattop, the Mole, Pruneface, the Brow--never got the better of his snap-brimmed hero...
...course, there's more to the novel than scaling the heights of Braithwaite's brow in pursuit of Flaubert. At the heart of Braithwaite's literary musings lies an attempt to come to terms with his own life, his failed marriage, and the death of his wife. The issue of the relation between Flaubert's life and art gradually dovetails into the narrator's biography. His attempts to understand are shot through with melancholy, as the past remains elusive: "My wife: someone I feel I understand less well than a foreign writer dead for a hundred years. Is this...
AUTHOR WILLIAM Hauptman has an American history fixation stronger than Bernard Bailyn's. Last year the American Repertory Theatre (ART) mounted his Big River, a dramatization of America a la Huck Finn. It proved an effective combination: Hauptman's middle-brow dramatic sensibilities were perfectly in key with Twain's wise hicks...