Word: impishness
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...when Broadway gave him stardom, for his part in George Balanchine's difficult Slaughter on Tenth Avenue ballet, in On Your Toes. Eventually he emerged as a character comic who could also deliver a wistful lyric. By Where's Charley?, he was translating most of life into impish leaps and droll gesture. "In show business," says Bolger, "whatever one can do with one's body is infinitely better than what one can do with words...
...think TIME'S [March 12] observation that Olivier-Richard's cold-bloodedness fails to win him sympathy doth miss the mark. Richard's ingratiating trait is his impish wickedness, his gleeful lack of conscience; he acts less with malice than with roguish dedication, so that his audience, in delighted horror, wonders just what the old boy will contrive next...
...spectator with an eye that catches him like a fishhook. This is Richard-lame leg, hunchback, "weerish withered arme" and all-and he is a frightening man indeed. A minute later the moviegoer is alone with the monster. "Why," he confides, as the thin lip writhes with an impish humor, "I can smile, and murder while I smile / . . . And wet my cheeks with artificial tears . . . / Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? / Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down...
...sporting friendship with Captain Townsend." Back in England, meanwhile, Margaret's life seemed much the mixture as before. Looking a trifle wan (she was getting over a cold), the Princess ventured out to see a preview of next year's fashions. Stars, once often seen in her impish eyes, now spangled a veil pendent from her hat of brushed wool...
...than a man without a head. The people of Britain let him go, anointed his conscientious younger brother George (Margaret's father) in his place and tried to forget him. A new royal family was established in Buckingham Palace, and the most beguiling member of it was an impish little Princess known as Margaret Rose. For the moment at least, all had become right again with the world, in Britain anyway. But the blow that Edward dealt the institution of the Crown was not forgotten...