Word: impishly
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...attention is the fuzzy glow between Richard Parry’s drum and his drumstick, and even that can’t get you through the unintentionally humorous blanket-shaking scene. A few months later, “Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)”: basically a bunch of impish little kids cutting power lines around town, pissing off the adult-types. The animation is second-rate, mostly “Triplets of Belleville” cribbing drawn with the finesse of a “South Park” episode. Now here comes the fugliest monstrosity of them...
...Frankel earned a reputation for being fair and open-minded. He tempered the paper's traditionally liberal editorial stance while solidifying the page's influence. As TIME's Thomas Griffith once put it, he modulated the page's "Ugh, Big Chief Has Spoken" voice, leavening its ponderous eminence with impish wit ("Helsinki, Schmelsinki," proclaimed a skeptical editorial on the 1975 human-rights accords). Now the family man can look back and thank Reston for his advice. Max Frankel stands on the highest step of the Times platform, possessor of one of the most powerful jobs in American journalism...
...probably serves everyone right that this one is the pits. Stanley White (Mickey Rourke, an impish altar-boy type with what looks like chalk dust in his hair to make him look middle-aged) is another of Cimino's righteous madmen, a police captain brought in to clean up New York City's Chinatown. It is an uphill battle, against inscrutable thugs, a silky tong lord (John Lone), a TV reporter (the incompetent actress Ariane) and preposterous dialogue by Cimino and Oliver Stone. Soporific when it is not offensive, Year of the Dragon may some day engender a confessional memoir...
...impish face, but her pops, Robin Williams, is still the bigger clown. In House of D, ZELDA WILLIAMS, 15, is the lead's crush, while her dad is a quirky janitor...
...sense of Alex Bogusky's droll perspective when he hands you his business card. It has one rounded corner and reads, "25% safer than most other business cards." It's a little impish, yes, but also engaging, like the offbeat advertising campaigns dreamed up at Bogusky's Miami firm, Crispin Porter & Bogusky. That's the company, after all, that created the Subservient Chicken, Burger King's bizarre chicken-sandwich mascot. The online ad features an actor in a chicken suit and a garter belt who will do just about anything visitors to the site demand (short of poultry porn). Designed...