Word: leer
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...Lebanese are everywhere, and they all do the same thing: operate identical general stores with identical merchandise. Adzope has an even dozen Lebanese stores, and if you can't find something in one of them you can't find it anywhere. They sell to the Africans and leer at the French women, but no one talks to them except other Lebanese...
...shows off his forensic marksmanship in a weekly TV debate called Firing Line, on which he confronts his adversaries with a polysyllabic vocabulary and an arsenal of intimidating grimaces. Does the occasion call for an eyebrow lifted in disdain, a mouth drawn down in disbelief, a popeyed leer of triumph at a point well scored? Buckley performs on cue. At a time when most TV performers play down to their audience, Buckley remains Buckley, and his program is all the more engaging...
Sellers, the Melancholy Matador, sometimes gets a laugh. But after he loses the girl, he bumps gracelessly from parody into pathos. Sellers just doesn't belong to the Chaplin tradition. He's a fraudulent character like Groucho Marx, who brings a leer into every tearjerker moment. When the trickster look falls off Sellers' face, he's cooked...
...love's true hair") neatly spoofed the ethnic folkniks, and within a few years the brothers were smothered with TV offers. On Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, Tom met Bette Davis, launched into a disjointed discourse in praise of her acting, then suddenly exclaimed with a sly leer, "Hey, do you mess around?" Bette howled, and has been their most devoted fan ever since...