Word: facially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tightening my head in a vise." She finally found relief with calcium channel blockers, originally developed for heart patients. Antidepressive drugs like the tricyclics are frequently recommended for shingles and chronic lower-back pain. Antiseizure medications like Dilantin, commonly used to treat epilepsy, can help calm the spasmlike facial pain of trigeminal neuralgia...
...wiggling backward out of a cancan skirt), sexual invitation (in the bumps and grinds of a vulgar parody of some black choreography), and grace (in the irregular, Twyla Tharpish movements created for her by Director-Choreographer Alan Johnston). She highlights the dances' meaning with a panoply of facial expressions: she may be the best mugger since Lucille Ball...
...died when his car was run off the road by enraged rednecks. Did die, clinically, the legend has it; doctors brought him back from beyond the edge. Should have died, probably; his life since then has been a washout. This is not because of his injuries, which left a facial scar but did no other permanent damage. It is because, as Novelist Rosellen Brown sketches him, he is temperamentally unsuited to be anything but the star of a protest movement...
...accompaniment to the main comic theme. It was, of course, wonderful to watch the meltdown of Rex Harrison's icy aplomb in the original, and one cannot expect that of Moore; there is only a half-pint of him to melt. But the range and control of his facial expressions are a joyous astonishment, and the Ministry of Silly Walks should declare him a national treasure. Kinski too is back within her best range, cheerfully sexy instead of glumly sultry. In short, Unfaithfully Yours is faithful to comedy's best professional standards. It is smart, well paced, nice...
...seen and not read. With the familiar sounds of Cordelia's solemn "nothing, my lord," and Lear's famous tirade "Blow, winds, blow," translated into Russian, much of the play's impact depends on the actors' ability to reinforce their foreign words with physical gestures, tones of voice, facial expressions and other universally understood signs. And it is greatly to director Kotzintsev's credit that the play's primordial, elemental power is strengthened--not diluted--by this process...