Word: impishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, Sullivan kept quizzing kids, found that they could be coaxed to chuckle first over impish-looking drawings of red ants, a fat man, even a thin pin, later over a frolicsome poodle named Nip and a red-headed moppet named Walter-all illustrating stories with plots that children found engaging. Laboriously trying out frame after frame on children and rejecting those that led either to boredom or too many wrong answers, Sullivan's team completed 21 textbooks-three series of seven, roughly intended for the first three grades...
Aili Paal as Conny, the youngest of the spiderish triumvirate intent on consuming Wake, is a sweet-faced leering, strutting, impish, delightful horror. Her mimicry of Jean's war story is hilarious. Her mother Elizabeth, played by Diana Allen, is an equally fine variation on the French sex-killer archetype. Together, they crawl all over Wake like a pair of black widows. Jaimie Rosenthal, as Mme. Rene, skillfully portrays a more mellow arachnid, whose venomous charm has degenerated into mere tittering...
...citizen for the past decade, Duchamp and his second wife, Alexina ("Teeny"), nowadays play once a week at New York's London Terrace Chess Club. "Breathing is my prime occupation," he declares with a twinkle. "I am a respirateur." He is content to be a wry and impish commentator, and from his septuagenarian's viewpoint, he sees much to cheer...
...affectionate crowds that hung outside his house when he turned 90 in November, there was still an impish twinkle in his eyes, a pugnacious thrust to the jaw, a dash of the old defiance as he raised his hand in the familiar V sign. It was a valiant effort, for Churchill had grown ever weaker and more withdrawn in recent years. Denied his old pastimes of painting, bricklaying and racing a famous stable, he still found pleasure in food, drink and a meager ration of cigars, in feeding the black swans at Chartwell, his country manor, or reliving old wars...
...misery, however, is implied in the colorism of COBRA. Bogged down in the dark morass of existential despair, most postwar European art either has lacked the tenacity of U.S. abstract expressionism or was bowled over by the impact of pop. COBRA'S impish founders meld genial monsters with bright hues to make a joyful vision. Never sallow, slick nor stuffily sober, this art draws from dreams, not nightmares...