Word: impishness
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...shadows of the Wilde and Williams parodies. In the latter she reveals a new facet of her talents. The abuse she skillfully suffers at the hands of her husband would qualify her for a position as an apache dancer. As the interlocutor between scenes, Mark Bramhall takes impish delight in the reading of the well-written stage directions...
...horns in his mouth at once, and blows like a whale. What spouts forth sometimes sounds like a bagpipers' band skirling The Campbells Are Coming. But most often the sounds belong uniquely to their maker, Roland Kirk, who meshes a thrumming beat, a fer tile imagination and an impish humor to achieve an exciting union of the pa gan and the modern spirit - as if Pan were suddenly found piping merrily in a rush-hour subway...
...asides as "Here the beds are somewhat narrow and suitable only for couples, to whom this book sends best wishes" or "I like the hotels on Rue de Buci, a block away from all the existential activity." Of Rome's Pensione Eureka he says: "Its star attraction is impish Mrs. Imperoli, a dead ringer for Romy Schneider...
...Wanted-Dead or Alive, serving what he describes as "three hard mother-grabbin' years, but I learned my trade and it gave me discipline." His range is so breathtaking that he can play either a grim soldier, as he did in Hell Is for Heroes, or a buoyantly impish soldier, as he does in the forthcoming Great Escape. Above all, he is to most other movie actors what a young oak is to a pile of fagots...
Pagliai's personal fortune of at least $50 million is eloquent testimony to the opportunity Latin America offers to those who dare and who know how. "I give away lots of money and I spend lots," he says with an impish grin. "What the hell...