Word: deadpan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...what’s the connection between the myth and the social group? “We’re hot,” says Tanya F. Perkins ’04, another of the co-founders, with a deadpan face...
...mind you, as the sort of crazed, braying idiot that Sandler’s been playing with fair consistency ever since his “Saturday Night Live” days, but as the deadpan-voiced everyman with the sweetly game smile that he’s tended to play in his past films’ quieter scenes. Here, he plays Barry Egan, a blue-suited salesperson with a warehouse office, seven emasculating sisters and a problem with emotional stability. Sandler’s performance is finely modulated, its simmering tenor punctuated by hilarious bursts of rage and passion. It?...
Chabon (pronounced Shay-bon) is the best known of a field of established authors who are all at once producing books for the Potterhead age group and up. This fall brings titles by the Chilean novelist Isabel Allende; Carl Hiassen, the deadpan satirist of modern Florida; and Clive Barker, the ghoul--or whatever you would call the man behind the Hellraiser films. There's serious money here. Even before Barker's book appears in stores, Disney has reportedly paid $8 million for the film, merchandising and theme-park rights to his characters. Theme-park rights? This never happened to Faulkner...
...erotic challenge of appreciating gals with chests like Mark McGwire's biceps (an important consideration for lonely fellows with their hands in their pants), there was the very industry of Russ's style. I mean, his movies moved, with all that churning action, the fast cutting, the piling of deadpan comic narration upon preposterous, nay, delirious plot twists. For sure, this technique kept the men in the audience on the cinematic alert. But Meyer paid little attention to satisfying the voyeur's essential need: to gaze uninterrupted at a beautiful woman who know she's being watched. Eroticism in movies...
...Japanese during World War II. Here his emotional distance serves him well. At the Stanley internment camp, Tom says, "morale was surprisingly high, not least because when it dropped, people tended to die." Understatement is perhaps the only appropriate response in the face of brutal suffering. His deadpan style is as clean and potent as a rifle shot...