Word: grins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Jeffries finally does arrive, fully an hour late, he is apologetic and cheerful, with a grin on his angular face. After greeting the class enthusiastically in ancient Egyptian -- "Hautep!" -- and receiving a decidedly lukewarm "Hautep" back, he explains that he has been trying to retrieve his clothes from the laundry, but it has burned down...
...mean the one decked out in medieval myth, gorgeous metaphors and a devilish grin? That's John Updike, the North American writer who usually makes his living turning out fiction about the lust-lives of New England palefaces...
...sheer boredom. Her call is immediately answered with a view of Clyde, who is contemplating stealing her mother's car. When their glance meet through the window, the moment seals their fate. Quick shots of Bonnie's deft strokes as she flawlessly applies her lipstick, Clyde's cocksure grin as he displays his gun to prove his claim as a bankrobber, and the target practice, where Clyde teaches Bonnie to shoot through a tire swing are only the beginning of the sexual imagery that punctuates the film...
...viewers were pulling for the blue collar Philadelphia Phillies over the Toronto Blue Jays. But with one swing of the bat, Carter made the 1993 series memorable. The vision of Carter jumping around the base paths, with his arms flailing and that wide-eyed-seven-year-old-Christmas-day grin on his face, will go down as one of the truly great moments in baseball history...
...suicide attempt, she collapsed into his arms in maudlin gratitude. The Los Angeles incarnation, Glenn Close, ends the act by lifting her bandaged arms above his embracing form, her fingers curving like talons to take him in. The former evoked weakness and despair, the rewrite an eerie grin...