Word: frowned
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...hear it for wrinkles--for those fabulous frown lines and high-kicking crow's-feet. What crucial moods they so subtly express! With a slight tightening of the skin between the eyebrows, bosses can communicate killer exasperation. Moms, salesclerks and 30-ish women at singles bars can signal displeasure without raising their voices. And consider the alpha male: why, Clint Eastwood with an unlined face would just be... Dick Clark. Wrinkles were surely what George Orwell had in mind when he wrote that at 50 everyone has the face he deserves...
...Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of corruption charges, you could see the toll the impending verdict was taking on him. The eyes sagged. The usually smooth skin seemed more wrinkled. The smug smile would occasionally straighten, the corners of his thin-lipped mouth almost turning to a resigned frown. If he was bitter, however, he would never admit it, not to a reporter, nor to his Cabinet, and probably not to his friends. Yet the possibility his tenure would be abbreviated by a guilty ruling had become the defining attribute of his term. Implicit in every question...
...Today, the stars of Cats & Dogs not only speak, they can wink, frown and smirk in full-bodied performances. On the set, a trainer gets a real beagle to jump through the air. An animatronic stand-in takes the fall. The face-replacement process gives the pup a surprised expression, and the shots are digitally sewn together. What's more, the animals look fabulous. For Mr. Tinkles, "we had to make 14 million 3-D hairs hold form and maintain volume," says Rhythm & Hues' Bill Westenhofer...
...Harvard's philosophy professors frown on Leiter's methodology and conclusions, they do not dispute that the department does not hold the position of primacy it has in the past and that Leiter's assessment that the department is "now more stable" is valid...
...This is what we've been waiting for, folks - an acknowledgment that his $1.6 trillion tax cut needs some tweaking before it can provide the sort of immediate economic stimulus Bush keeps telling us we need to turn the national frown upside down...