Word: demeanors
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...sense of skewed reality pervades the design of the play. We are confronted throughout by a giant portrait of Lenin painted on a broken wall, gazing down disapprovingly. His stern demeanor is broken, however, by jars (the brain-containing type) placed in alcoves cut out of the wall close to the ground and later, more strikingly, by backlit X-rays of people harmed by radiation, which shine out from Lenin’s formerly implacable face. Adding to the alternate-reality effect is the use of stilts for the party leaders and fat suits (and in one case, a costume...
...challenge. I found myself laughing at some of the one-liners delivered by Bobo, a cute combination between a younger Macaulay Culkin and Rupert Grint (Ron from the “Harry Potter” series). His on-screen brother, Hutcherson, displays a charmingly bratty demeanor with such lines as “Get me a juice box, biotch.” The same compliments cannot be given to the grown-up actors in the movie. Dax Shepard, minus his “Punk’d” partner Ashton Kutcher, shows up midway through in the role...
While she has taken the helm, Schroyer’s calm demeanor off the ice and backing from the other two seniors are helping keep the team focused on the upcoming season...
...since his release he has kindled a love affair with his grandchildren. Gradually, as Mandela begins to talk of how his fellow Peace Prize winner, South African President F.W. de Klerk, has ''disappointed'' him during their long, tortuous negotiations toward a new, free, just South Africa, his sunny demeanor fades. Once started on this subject, he has trouble stopping. His voice rises; the smile becomes a scowl. Blacks have been killing other blacks in gruesome ways and growing numbers back in his country, and Mandela says he knows who is partly to blame: ''There is no doubt that the National...
...threw us something. At this point, I’d settle for a tiny crust of a clue. Cut to a shot of the islanders. Sun has lost her wedding ring. She’s in tears, tearing up her garden. She’s certainly lost her Sunny demeanor (har har). Next, we have a flashback of her on a blind date that her mother set up with some Harvard hot-shot. Fittingly, he’s a jerk. Harvard Man basically leads Sun on in an attempt to get his own mother off his back?...