Word: impishness
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...Nasty Girl Michael Verhoeven's exuberant, stylish satire, based on recent fact, examines the lingering shadow Nazism casts across Germany and the obsessive determination of one teenager to expose it. As the anti-Nazi girl, Lena Stolze is impish, imperious, utterly adorable...
HOME ALONE. And a little child shall lead them. To the box office, anyway. This crafty comedy about an impish boy abandoned at home on Christmas Eve will reach the $100 million mark this week...
...that kind of impish self-assurance that makes the school's enemies see red. It is not that the best-qualified students go to Eton, they charge, but that going to Eton is the best qualification for success: as recently as 1960, fully one-fifth of all Conservative Members of Parliament were Old Etonians (imagine 60 Republican Congressmen coming from a single high school). The school's defenders retaliate by pointing out that its distinctive features -- every boy has a room of his own and attends regular tutorials, known as Private Business -- ensure that it will continue to produce...
...With an impish smile, Claiborne Pell, Democratic Senator from Rhode Island and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, waved a newspaper clipping at Secretary of State James Baker last week. It reported that Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze had told his country's parliament he would seek its prior approval for any military involvement in the Persian Gulf. "Can you make the same promise?" asked Pell. "We will continue to consult," replied Baker. But he added, "What I cannot do is make a general, across-the-board commitment...
...glasses give him a scholarly look, partially offset by the sweat pants, T shirt and basketball shoes he favors when not onstage. He speaks softly, occasionally offering an impish smile or raising his eyebrows to make a point. He sips hot tea as he talks. Like most of today's young players, he stays away from alcohol, cigarettes and drugs...