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Word: glinting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heart of the movie's success. This may be slam-dunk casting, demonic being the thing we most happily pay our money to see him do. But he calibrates his shifts to the lupine -- a cock of the head, a twitch of the nostril, a panicky glint in the eye -- with delicious subtlety. Mike Nichols, the director, finds all the right angles to enhance Nicholson's effects, which are wholly a product of the actor's technique, not a makeup artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Sympathy for the Bedeviled | 6/20/1994 | See Source »

...pictured a man with blood running down his smock and a sadistic glint in his eye as he lifted up his cleaver again and again, hacking the heads off of bird after bird...it was a good way to start the day, I thought...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: A Photographer's Journey to Find Chicken, Chicken and Dead Chicken | 10/30/1993 | See Source »

Beset with the reality of an expensive health care system that fails to cover 37 million Americans, experts at Harvard and elsewhere are looking to Clinton's plan with a glint of hope--but also a sea of worries...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, | Title: Experts Express Concern Over Clinton Health Plan | 9/24/1993 | See Source »

...from the glint in his eye, you could tell he wasn't kidding. HARVARD, 3-1 at Cutterson Field House Harvard 2 0 1 -- 3 Vermont...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Men's Hockey Clinches Second Straight ECAC Title With 3-1 Win Over Vermont | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

...with Jackie, but he turns out to be an easily manipulated dunce. The inside-TV humor is too familiar, as are the supporting players (Martin Mull, Alison LaPlaca). Even Arnold's performance has the whiff of a recycled Dave Thomas character from SCTV. Still, the show has a fiendish glint in its eye, and with its surefire time slot (following Roseanne on Tuesdays), it may be around long enough to forge a fresh path...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Nov. 30, 1992 | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

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