Word: eyebrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...match by splintering its chronology. His narrative spirals through the book's events in ruminative glides and turns, ending where it began, with the master's death. Commonplace images-a girl on a bridge tossing bread to carp, a long white hair in the master's eyebrow -take on a subliminal life through calm, patient repetition and minute elaboration. There is a kind of low-key daring about such writing: either it exerts a spell or it is nothing...
...rather operatic way. He favors huge, porous closeups and compositions with profiles looming large in one corner or another of the wide-screen frame. The music is another Leone trademark. In the Eastwood epics, it will be remembered, a jew's-harp twanged madly every time an eyebrow was arched. Here Leone recruits some hapless vocalist to make melodramatic noises that seem to be an imitation of a bullfrog with bronchitis...
...Days' Wonder exudes a sort of occluded Catholicism, a quality that the young Chabrol detected in the work of Hitchcock, who has been a heavy and not entirely salutary influence on him. Everything is rather uninterestingly out of control here, including Orson Welles. When Welles arches an eyebrow he undergoes such convulsions that it appears he is trying to launch a great hairy boomerang off his face and into the stratosphere...
...Well ah'll tell you," said the Boxer, smiling from under an arched eyebrow and playfully extending a knuckle, "--'scuse me for hittin you--Ahm gonna rise the tropps to rebellion tonight, and ah hope you"ll get thirty thousand of your best...
...inadvertently skipped a few bars and hit a high A too soon. "I held up my hand, and she knew immediately what the problem was," recalls Rudel. "So she held the note until I lowered my hand eight bars later. To make anything clear to her, a finger, an eyebrow, is enough...