Word: expressionlessness
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...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...
Explaining Blue Man Group is no easy task. Take the Blue Men themselves. They are expressionless and robotic, yet oddly childlike and endlessly creative: a tripartite Buster Keaton, dropped in from Saturn. Some of the bits are overtly satirical (a dead fish on a canvas is the subject for a high-toned art critique, which scrolls by on an electronic message board). Others are raucously playful. One of the Blues tosses what appears to be marshmallows across the stage to a comrade, who catches them with his mouth and stuffs them inside like a huge wad of bubble...