Word: leer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dade County Circuit Court has turned down a national women's organization request for a restraining order to ground the campaign. National pleads innocence. Says Public Relations Director Robert Mattel: "The stewardesses become an extension of the airline. We had no preconceived idea of injecting a suggestive leer into the campaign...
That can mean only one thing: the return of Satan's Jesters, otherwise known as the Rolling Stones. Just in time, too, to keep rock from losing its evil leer for good. After a fairly quiescent 18 months-the Altamont tragedy sobered a lot of people, the Stones included; four deaths will do that-Mick Jagger and his fellows are back with a new U.S. distributor (Atlantic) and their own label, Rolling Stones Records...
Only at the very end of their engagement does Sigi dare a leer...
...meaning. Act I is fun and naughty games. In it, Philip ends up in bed with a Venus's-fly-trap of a girl. His fiancée Celia (Jane Asher) pairs up with a cynical aphorist out of early Aldous Huxley. This hedonist with a literate leer acquires luxuriant narcissistic finesse from the performance of Victor Spinetti...
...John Neville as Humbert, who has the perfect appearance and accent for the part, and a fine singing voice as well. What he lacks, and this is probably Lerner's fault in his writing of the role, is James Mason's air of old-world degeneracy. He doesn't leer at Lolita, he gazes in wonder at her beauty...