Word: jovialness
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...chain-smoking and chatting about weapons, tactics, the long lines to get gasoline, whose children are starting to crawl. A young man spreads a plastic sheet on the floor and lays out plates of roasted chicken, rice, bean soup and boiled vegetables. As the men eat, the talk is jovial, full of laughter and noisy boasting. The presence of a reporter for a U.S. magazine does not seem to faze them. "American soldier very afraid," roars Abu Ali. "We are not." A grinning fighter brags about what would have happened if he had known President George W. Bush would...
...jarring to see Eric Tsang angry. The jovial actor, whose ubiquity in Hong Kong films?he's been in nearly 150?has made him a fixture on cable systems throughout Asia, is synonymous with lowbrow high jinks and slapstick physicality. Yet here he is, feet planted defiantly on a Kowloon street, ignoring an imprecating photographer who is losing a race with the setting sun to snap a natural-light portrait. Tsang's full-moon of a face, which is seen onscreen usually deployed in an overwrought double take or wide-eyed surprise, is now reddening as he barks in Cantonese...
...Next Valentine's Day the pair co-star in another tale of love and memory--this one about forgetting. In 50 First Dates, Sandler, a veterinarian, falls for Barrymore, a woman with short-term-memory loss, and has to woo her anew every day. Of re-teaming with her "jovial, lovable" onscreen honey after six years, Barrymore says, "We're a little bit more mature but not much." Does that mean Sandler's not playing The Hannukah Song on that guitar...
...black and white images that mimic the look of the real world. The beauty of Sacco's work is that he gets to have it both ways. He combines the verisimilitude of documentary imagery with the arrangement of the most carefully scripted fiction. One panel, of a bunch of jovial paramilitaries enjoying their booty, laughing, sprawled on couches, seems lifted from Hogarth in its formal arrangement of bodies. Other, subtler uses of imagery seem at play too. One panel has the na?ve Sacco reaching for his wallet as the waitress' round serving tray forms a halo around his head. Sacco...
Many observers said they felt Kerry’s sometimes jovial, sometimes pugnacious demeanor in the interview helped combat criticism that he is aloof and tends to give vague, political answers...