Word: eyelashed
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...Turner herself. Oddly enough, the most engaging part of the opening night performance occured when the sound went out in the first act. When her microphone quit working, Turner did not bat an eyelash. Instead she rolled her eyes and drawled at the audience "Well daaaaaahling, shall we continue?" The ensuing feedback was drowned out by the applause of the enamored audience, and she finished the act without amplification...
...dreary decade (eight years of Eisenhower and his supposedly tired-blood, country club Republicans) embraced a new generation in the person of young, dashing John Kennedy, who promised to "get America moving again." Hmmm. It was not much of an embrace. Kennedy won that election by an eyelash - some think it was an electoral eyelash conjured up by Mayor Richard Daley from the graveyards of Cook County, Ill. In any case, too close an election to support the Bush thesis...
...position, re-introduced by Rudenstine at the beginning of his tenure, is only nine years old--as Fineberg says, "in Harvard time that's the flick of an eyelash"--and holds dubious authority in some eyes...
...Hollywood vixen has been selling movie tickets for decades and no better is this exemplified than with the vivacious, loquacious and sagacious blond bombshell, Ms. Mae West. Long before the most modern set of Hollywood vamps emerged, there was West, who's hip, swinging swagger, sultry double talk and eyelash batting was enough to send Postmaster General Hayes into a censorship tizzy...
...headlines said. The dailies offered little comment on the fashionistas' studied ignorance of two anti-fur protestors who interrupted the show and were forcibly escorted out by security guards. Nary a false eyelash was batted in the direction of the commotion; the show went on as scheduled. The lack of attention paid to the demonstrators seemed not so much the result of troubled conscience as that of sheer indifference...