Word: impishness
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...maverick, the lone, passionate voice of conservatism. My brother's success is a kind of vindication of my father's lifework in politics." If there is a difference between the lawyer with the booming voice and his radio-star son, the family says, it is in Rush's impish, rowdy sense of humor. "I don't want to brag," Millie says, "but I say he got his sense from his dad and his nonsense from...
...SOMEONE SO PREOCCUPIED WITH AGing and loneliness, Crystal doesn't have to worry about either. Offstage, he cuts a youthful figure in his uniform of jeans and T shirts, with his impish face and wiry, still athletic build (in high school he won two letters in baseball and one each in basketball and soccer). With the success of his movies, particularly the box-office smashes Harry and City Slickers, he may never have to go back on the road, which he found unbearably lonely. "There's a scene in Mr. Saturday Night where Buddy is having dinner with his wife...
That mouth, impish or hellacious, is where Whoopi Goldberg goes one up on the world. Twist it, she's a funny little troll. Smile like the Queen of Sheba, she is the Queen of Sheba, a knee-weakening beauty (don't doubt it; like Meryl Streep, who's also less than a stunner, Whoopi can play beauty). Shove out her jaw, she's a bad-mouth male junkie -- yeah, name's Fontaine, attitude's his game, what's your problem? Flash that 82-toothed thousand- watter, time to watch your wallet. Smile shyly, she's a little kid, you want...
...castle as literature -- the Prague castle of his novel being the symbolic seat of mysterious, anonymous power, an effect the Communists had a genius for. That Havel came to preside over the castle seemed the Czechoslovaks' graceful, transcendent leap out of the dark, a sort of miracle -- and an impish historical touch...
...tall man with twinkling eyes, an impish grin and a boyish exuberance, Bill joined TIME's Los Angeles bureau in 1957, not long after graduating from Occidental College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He opened a bureau for us in Anchorage in 1958 and later served as bureau chief in Nairobi and New Delhi. He was for many years a senior writer in the World section and, since 1989, a senior editor of our International editions...