Word: leer
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...that.) So folk art includes the minutely stitched embroideries over which the dutiful daughters of urban merchants strained their young eyes, no less than such humble ornaments as the chalkware statuettes cast from plaster by itinerant peddlers-of which a brightly spotted goat with striped horns and a Picassian leer (see color page) is one amusing example...
...talking with a guy from B&G last year when a pretty girl walked by. "The things I missed when I was young," he said, with what can only be described as a soulful leer. "When I was your age you had to wine and dine a girl for a year before you could get into her. But today! You just take her down to the Square for a hot dog and then back...
...feel about getting ogled in the street. My body used to go taut with suppressed fury, and now I bristle ironically--"that puffy red-faced one there with the beery swollen jowls and lecherous look is a cracker, don't even try to meet his leer because his head is so far away that he's going to play any response you make by his rules." I watch its progression in the fact that I have stopped going back to first causes when I put on eyeliner in the morning, or in the way that I have stopped reading...
Resonance and observation are what really matter here, not plot. Ozu excels at capturing the currents of tenderness and the differences caused by age and experience that flow, sometimes simultaneously, between parent and child. Watching the old man, slightly bleary with whisky, leer at the barmaid, his son says: "She doesn't look at all like mother." The old man smiles, a little sly, a little...
...three. When she was twelve, she appeared in her first movie, Rock, Rock, Rock, a cheapie made in Brooklyn to cash in on the rock-'n'-roll craze of the '50s. Whatever its demerits, the film projected Tuesday as the archetypal nymphet, Shirley Temple with a leer. "The girl I generally played was a little whorish teen-ager who would sleep with anybody, and yet has a childlike quality," says Tuesday...