Word: eyebrowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jazz drifts smokily through San Francisco bistros, the lean man with the horn-rimmed glasses and a grey-flecked crew-cut walks up to the bar and acts like the squarest square from Endsville. He orders milk. But from the Red Garter to the Purple Onion, not an eyebrow lifts. Everyone knows that on matters that count-a beat and a lyric-Columnist Ralph Gleason. 42, has a taste so cool that he turns out much of the solid reporting and comment on the convoluted world of jazz...
...cannot be denied. In the free and responsible exercise of this privilege the American system has often found strength. But the entry of so respectable a body as the American Bar Association into the raucous chorus of intemperate criticism of the Supreme Court is an occasion at least for eyebrow-raising...
...grade because of the countries they represent," a Brazilian diplomat once explained it, "and some in spite of the countries they represent." Britain's Sir Harold Caccia entertains infrequently, but the British embassy is decidedly a place to be seen (although Lady Caccia has earned many a raised eyebrow because of her custom of moving guests from one after-dinner conversational cluster to another). Belgium's Silvercruys gives small but elegant dinners at his home, forbids shop talk ("I do not work at meal time"), is widely regarded as a gourmet (who, when told that a friend...
...always, the Tureck style was unhurried, her touch firm and glistering, her phrasing spacious. Her cues to the orchestra were kept to a minimum: a somewhat stiff sweep of the arms to launch a movement, followed by a nod of her head or even the lift of an eyebrow to cue individual sections. Her piano itself set the tempo, which Tureck accentuated by bobbing slightly on the piano bench...
Through all this, Diplomat Dillon, sometime U.S. Ambassador to France, sat by without flicking an eyebrow...