Word: cheeking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, the humor in this sort of acting can be marred by just one actress in the small cast. Mia Farrow is beautiful but displays little capacity for the tongue-in-cheek delivery that keeps this script rolling. Her scenes drag, although the rest of the cast provides sparkle in Sex Comedy...
...year-old girl named Waffa was asleep when her home fell on top of her. She is asleep now too. Her head is shaved where they operated. Her left ear is blackened, her left eye swollen red. Below it, her cheek is sheathed in a purple-gray plaster. Her brain is damaged. She will be partly paralyzed for life. Beside her bed sits her older sister, who cannot bear to look. She stares instead at the open window...
...heedless libertines do not appreciate what they are enjoying, nor do his cynics know what they are missing. "Oh, what can you do with a man like that?" asks the narrator of one of his stories. "How can you dissuade his eye in a crowd from seeking out the cheek with acne, the infirm hand; how can you teach him to respond to the inestimable greatness of the race, the harsh surface beauty of life...
Graham himself does not always turn the other cheek. When, a few days later, he was told Bill Moyers' remark that it "was not easy to sup with power and get up without spots," Graham replied: "Bill would certainly know about that ... He's supped with power quite a lot." On the Brinkley show, however, Graham was, like most guests, a consenting victim...
...that I slammed the car door against my face; and I ran-ran fast-on legs that were tingling with the senselessness of fatigue, and, knowing that I had an exam in 24 hours in a course. I barely remembered I had taken, blood trickling down my very bruised cheek, I flung our single sheets of newsprint, right and left, and yelled. "The hostages are free! The hostages are free!" And then I went home and collapsed...