Word: contortionism
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But you can't toss off Carmen (gleeful eyeful) Miranda too lightly. Garbed in a florist's nightmare, she struts about spouting Brazilian double-talk with the facility of a side-show barker. There is a certain electric element in her contortion with commentary, something that makes the whole experience...
James Stewart may still be dear to the hearts of the club women of America. Certainly his lovable simplicity, which has been built up in all his former pictures, is no less lovable or simple in this one. But the trouble is that while he is acting bewildered in "The...
To begin with she was not the finished, versatile actress she is today. She had a tendency to overplug her comedy with exaggerated gestures and grimaces, and she had little emotional range. But gradually, especially by working with the hyper critical and candid Coward, her acting began to acquire sureness...
It is entirely possible that some of the figures are from the hand of Bernini, himself, and all are an expression of his greatness. They show his invention, his knowledge of the technique of sculpture, and his use of movement and contortion to express extreme emotion. They completely represent the...
"The German Government's decision is at once an act of friendship to Italy and an example of intelligent European policy. It serves also to point the rational way whereby, without any need ot diplomatic contortion and useless controversies, it is possible to solve practically and in a form...