Word: eyebrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report, written by Assistant Labor Secretary Jerome Rosow, notes that 40% of American families, comprising 70 million family members, have incomes of between $5,000 and $10,000 a year. That is hardly a new or eyebrow raising perception, but the analysis points out that these "forgotten Americans"-many of them ethnics and blue-collar workers-feel bedeviled by crime, welfare, inflation and Government inattention. The squeeze is not only economic but social; the mystique of the nobility and value of labor is all but gone...
...father of four children. He personifies the careful diplomat. A Democrat, he successfully served under four Presidents. When he retired last year, a group of the nation's most prestigious foreign policy practitioners gave him an elaborate luncheon. He sat through the customary paeans, never raising an eyebrow or twitching a facial muscle. It was a show of the kind of reserve that led Nixon to pick Bruce as chief negotiator at the Paris peace talks...
...Polly, the girl for whom romance blossoms in an elegant French Riviera school for British girls, Judy Carne, of TV Laugh-In fame, makes a static stage debut. She arches an eyebrow here, kicks a leg there and sings a song on key, but mostly she seems to be placidly waiting for the show to carry her. Not so Sandy Duncan, who plays Polly's friend Maisie. She is a winning girl with a saucy comic style and enough sizzling energy to set the floorboards smoking. All of the dance numbers are a delight, though they have been meticulously...
Often a good actor and sometimes a great one, Peter O'Toole nevertheless has little talent for concealing his boredom in film projects that seem unworthy of his skills. There is always one sure sign of his desperation: O'Toole begins to twitch. His right eyebrow arches, his mouth creases, one shoulder appears to rise several inches above the other, and his neck bobs back and forth as if a series of tiny explosions were occurring at the top of his spinal column. This invariably happens at moments of great stress, when the actor, not the character...
...issues like abortion and the Pill. She mainly focuses on routine reality. Sample, on the perils of being without an ordinary pencil: "If Onassis knocked on the door and wanted to buy our house for a highway phone booth, I would have to sign the agreement with (a) an eyebrow pencil, (b) yellow crayon, (c) cotton swab saturated in shoe polish, (d) an eyedropper filled with cake coloring, or (e) a sharp fingernail dipped in my own blood...