Word: flickingly
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...under Mike Nichols' direction The Little Foxes didn't seem a tale of nouveau-riche aspirations. Actors used every remark, every glance, every flick of the wrist to overwhelm a rival. The battle, it turned out, was not so much for extra dollars as for some kind of recognition from the family. With the Hubbards you're either one up on everybody--or ignored...
...cannot keep segments of the drama from dialogyness. There is nothing logy about Brian Murray and John Wood in the taxing title roles. Every shifting breeze of the play's moods crosses their faces: they can summon up anxiety, false courage, utter bafflement, and honest fear with a flick of the lip, or a twist of the torso. They give the play's mind a body, and make R. and G. an evening for the playgoer who seeks not to forget but to know himself...
...psychologies of the long distance runner. "When you're on a straight away," the dark, spare captain smiled, "you can't let the guy in back of you know you're worried; the only time you can look back at him is on the curves when you can flick a look back over your shoulder...
...stretch, with his long arms straight up, Santiago's loose wrists would come together in an insolent, triumphant flick of glove and ball. At first, one though it was some kind of supplication. But it was a strong gesture, a determined yet casual Latin signal of defiance. One could imagine Jose saying to himself, as he checked the Twins all around, "I have good stuff. I have real good stuff and I no worry...
...likely to blur Warhol's image as the Zanuck of the nonmovie. The sound track, regrettably, is as clear as a hi-fi record, and the film is as much in focus as the average overground flick. After wobbling his camera in 60 or so pictures, demonstrating that film making is all in a flick of the wrist, could it be that, in his cinematic technique, Andy is finally going straight...