Word: hyena
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...partly because of Osborne's cruel skill at picking scabs from the wounds his people carry, mostly because of a touching performance by Actress de Banzie and a smashing one by Actor Olivier. Olivier's Archie is a masterpiece of mannerism. He carries his body like a hyena's, hunched at the neck with the legs dragging carelessly behind. His smile is big, showy, meaningless. His hands are furtive, fiddling, scratching. His eyes are busy, empty, dead. It can, of course, be objected that Olivier's Archie is more a mannerism than a man, that Olivier...
...square miles of African semidesert with the regal confidence of a Scarsdale matron patting into place the play patterns of her daughter's age group. Only such a woman would speak of the gruesome noises outside the camp at night as the "chuckles" of a hyena...
Mail Call. Napoleon took an immediate dislike to Lowe ("a most villainous face") and regularly called him a "hired assassin" with "hyena's eyes." Lowe insisted that Napoleon be referred to as "General Bonaparte"; Napoleon insisted that he was the "Emperor Napoleon," and refused to accept his mail or his own doctor's reports unless so addressed. When
...time Tony gets back to the farmhouse, two of Debbie's grade-schoolboy brothers have helpfully removed the engine from his car-they are giving him, they announce, a free "ring job." At about this point, poor Tony is driven to drink (something called a Laughing Hyena: one part vermouth, two parts gin, three parts whisky). After which he of course starts to laugh like a hyena, blacks out, wakes up the next morning in Debbie's bed. "You were wonderful," she sighs adoringly. "You better get some more sleep. After last night you need it." Tony stares...
...abolition of the death penalty. The film rises to a memorable peroration in the words of Clarence Darrow (Orson Welles), as he asks the court to temper justice with mercy, sentence his clients to life in prison. "Life!" he cries. "Any cry for more goes back to the hyena...