Word: expressionlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defendants, sitting beside two social workers, listen with pale and expressionless faces. Both come from broken homes, with parents reported to have alcohol problems. While Boy B's parents have both been in court, sometimes crying as the grisly murder was described, neither A's mother nor his father has attended the trial. Boy A has kept his composure for the most part, but his companion has sobbed and clutched at the social worker beside him. James' father, Ralph Bulger, listens intently, occasionally closing his eyes...
...might not be any better if Lamour spoke. He is more wooden than the Cross. He seems to have been cast because his expressionless features have the same effect Garbo's masklike face did at the end of Queen Christina; audiences saw complex emotions playing across her features while she was thinking, she said, of "nothing at all." This show is unlikely to lure back the lapsed, let alone convert the condemned. The faithful can impose their own meaning on Lamour's blank canvas...
...heard people say things like 'I guess I'm not used to having all these women look down on me,'" she says. "I even heard one say 'She must be a feminist or something.' People have such violent reactions, particularly to this one piece which is really expressionless...
ROBERT DUVALL, BULKED UP INSIDE HIS military overcoat and nearly expressionless beneath a bushy mustache, looks as much like Frankenstein's monster as Joseph Stalin in HBO's new film about the Soviet dictator. Certainly his deeds are just as monstrous, and even more unfathomable. Directed by Ivan Passer, STALIN vividly chronicles the revolutionary footsoldier's rise to power and his ruthless, increasingly paranoid reign of terror. The scenes of Stalin's 1930s' purges are especially chilling, and the film gratifyingly avoids hokey re-creations of "big" historical events like the Yalta Conference. Still, despite Duvall's intense performance...
...Cocteau Twins' music has evolveddramatically since their rather tentative firstalbum. The expressionless lyrics and dull backingwhich had irked many early listeners weregradually polished away, leaving the kind ofdelicate cacophony which makes the Cocteau Twinsso easily recognizable...