Word: impishness
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...free-wheeling figure. Dunlop was no saint, but he had a certain appealing straight-forward way of conducting business. In the middle of propounding some outrageously conservative policy or point of view, accompanied by loud table-poundings, he would disarm his listerners by twisting his rubbery features into an impish grin, leaving them wondering whether he was actually as conservative as all that...
...lost its most colorful and free-wheeling figure. Dunlop was no saint, but he had a certain appealing straight-forward way of conducting business. In the middle of propounding some outrageously conservative policy or point of view, he would disarm his listeners by twisting his rubbery features into an impish grin, leaving them wondering whether he was actually as conservative as all that...
...whose style and skills closely parallel Bench's own. It may well be that Josh Gibson of the Homestead Grays in the old Negro League was better than any of them. Then add the Brooklyn Dodger Blockbuster Roy Campanella (TIME Cover, Aug. 8, 1955) and the Yankees' impish Yogi Berra and the list of supercatchers is completed. As for the mental-retardation image, four of the modern seven-Dickey, Hartnett, Cochrane and Berra-became big league managers. There are tragic reasons why the others did not. Gibson's color was-in his era-enough to keep...
Deep Growls. In her second Broadway try, in the musical Purlie, she strutted away with the show, copping the 1970 Tony Award for the best supporting actress. At 5 ft. 4 in. and 100 Ibs., she is waifish, impish and has a voice that can shift gears from blues to ballads, from glass-shattering high notes to deep-down growls in one easy swoop...
...characters with scissors of irony, one senses that she would really like to cut a good deal deeper. Why does she restrain herself? She has image, language, an actor's sympathy that lets her inhabit as well as observe characters. If she had fully released her rage, this impish novel could have been a devil of a book...