Word: facially
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dubuffet's works because they are the most apparently abstract. But Dubuffet didn't see them that way at all. No matter how small the teeming signs got, they still represented something -- a point the artist later emphasized by cutting some of them up and using them as the facial hair in his hilarious sequence of bearded heads, such as Beard of Stubborn Refusal...
...cites the most significant moments of his career not as the celebrated transplant in 1954 or his being awarded the Nobel Prize, but instead treating children with congenital facial deformities and serving in the U.S. Army...
...have sparse facial hair, in a pathetic attempt to emulate the Beat Poets, and want to take a year off to ride a motorcycle cross-country. In 1993? Get real; thirteeners would never do a thing like that. Not eco-friendly enough, and in this economic climate with the intense competition for jobs, a year off has to be strategically planned for maximum resume-enhancing value...
...fast-moving dialogue. At times the audience cannot keep pace with the bouts of verbal jousting because of inadequate into-national nuance. But they more than compensate with their frenetic motion and lively delivery. Broder especially appears more comfortable with physical rather than vocal acting, and his facial and bodily contortions bring the house down. In particular, his protracted death rattle during Munger's meditations on burial has the audience chortling merrily...
First, knee-jerk iconoclasm. The habit of a lifetime is hard to break. The very phrase "the President's economic plan" starts the facial nerves twitching into the formation of a cynical sneer. As proposals for reform of everything under the sun come cascading out of the Administration, the first instinct is to assume there is something wrong with each of them...