Word: cheeking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sandrine Bonnaire has a peasant sensuality; naked, she looks like the figurehead on a pirate ship. The camera closes in on the stolid planes of her face, and voilà a deep dimple appears incongruously in her left cheek. From wanton to elfin in the flick of an adolescent whim-such are the compelling mysteries of personality. Bonnaire stars as the teen-age Suzanne in this doggedly unsentimental French film from Writer-Director Maurice Pialat. Suzanne's family has stayed together by corseting all hostilities. Then she discovers the power of her own erotic impulse. Overnight, Daddy...
Reagan's outspoken pro-handgun stance and his support of the NRA seem an ironic turning of the other cheek, but the constitutional freedoms he invokes have hit home with voters, spelling major setbacks for advocates of gun control. If it was bleak for these activists after the 1980 conservative landslide, is it defeat after 1984's instant replay? Perhaps not, for two reasons. First, Reagan's short "coattails" did not produce a conservative sweep in the congressional races. Secondly, the repercussions of the victory have jolted handgun control activists into the daring shift toward local politics, a change that...
...moderation in dress and volume, and the family. Painters, writers and musicians had accomplished a similar negation before any of today's punks were born. The fractured images of any of Picasso's Guernica period paintings are as visually disturbing as a youth with a safety pin through his cheek. Atonal symphonies, far more dissonant and demanding than anything a punk can create with simple feedback techniques, have existed since the days when people still listened to Glen Miller. The best indicator of the punk ethic's staleness, though, is the Dadas...
...days later, while I was leafing through a collection of short stories, the following passage stood out. He selected a part of black plastic frames an much thick, with hinged corner that stuck out from the cheek bones like a horse's blinders, pieces heavy enough to bend the ear. They were a kind of mask that hid half his face...
Moral Majority does not turn the other cheek. It claims to have added 2 million Republican voters to the registration rolls this year, 8 million since 1978. Another fundamentalist group, Christian Voice, publishes a "Biblical Scoreboard" to show that Reagan is more faithful to the Scriptures than Mondale on abortion, homosexual rights, school prayer and national defense...