Word: frowned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visual jokes are imaginative and successful. A "bullet" sequence parodies some of the cliches of silent film comedy; a threatening group sneaks up behind someone who turns around with a frown, and they scamper away in terror. This is set to music that is its perfect complement. But elsewhere the music is less successful: it is scattered, somehow, never coming together to a really memorable tune or grand chorus, rarely providing the aural punch to go along with visual jokes...
...when asked what he talked to other kids about. "The usual," he said. "My film." And when Gene Wilder, who played with Steven in Prince, protested, "This boy is just being exploited; he isn't having any fun at all," Steven looked distinctly annoyed and allowed a fine frown to crease his angelic brow...
With those words, President Gerald Ford last week reaffirmed his promise to restore a sense of national unity and purpose-to replace, as his friend and adviser Bryce Harlow expresses it, a national frown with a national smile. To that end, Ford maintained a headlong pace throughout the second full week of his presidency...
...yourself dressed in Renaissance robes, poring over an illuminated manuscript in an Erasmus-like tower. You lean over and look out the window at the little groups of women walking to market and children playing tag, a couple of lovers smiling at one another in the grass, and a frown comes over your face, you shake your head, and, with a slight disdainful grunt, you return to pore over your work...Then, as you are trying to concentrate, you are pushed by someone muttering to himself, "Where the hell are the psychology books?" and you are back in Cambridge...
...elegant prefabricated models can be bought for as little as $300 at sporting-goods stores, mounted on runners and towed onto the ice by snowmobile, car or truck (which can supply electricity for lights and appliances). The snowmobiles are also used for getting round the ice towns, but purists frown on them, complaining that their racket scares the fish away. Another factor in the growth of ice-fishing has been the development of thermal-layer underwear, which enables the shanty anglers to go calling on their neighbors in comfort. Many anglers bring along outhouses, furnished with "thunder mugs"-pots with...