Word: leeringly
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...pensive gaze of Liz Taylor, Monroe's heavy-lidded glance and the Mona Lisa's enigmatic leer recall the direct eye contact of the Catholic icons of Christ, the Madonna and saints that Warhol grew up with. Catholic imagery is also full of death and grisly executions, subjects that possessed Warhol during the '60s. Darkness hangs over Room 9 (Disasters) as the mushroom cloud of Atomic Bomb (1963) hung over the decade. In images adapted from anonymous news photos, rioters are attacked by police dogs. Women die in car wrecks or from poisoned tuna fish. The broken body...
...stage doubled over with age, but nevertheless gleefully singing about her love of the torture chamber to great comic effect. And Zak B. Stone ’03, as the hunchbacked assistant tormentor Wilfred, is captivating as the young maiden’s unwanted suitor. How he keeps the leer on his face, all the while doubled over and singing patter songs, is a mystery, but still a joy to watch...
...illustrator for Maxim magazine. Why would this figure, with its dysmorphically thin, highly-available female body and Albert Einstein's head be "ideal" as president? Because he or she would be smart--"like a man"--but also sexually available? Or because his or her male students could ogle and leer while walking to class...
...fringe of Japan's colorful nightlife for decades, catering to aged sugar mamas and scrawny scroungers with hair gel and overlaundered black suits. Kiss those days sayonara. Japan's host clubs have gone mainstream?without getting overly squeaky clean. The newly burnished male host?sans gold teeth and creepy leer?is Japan's latest celebrity. Hosts are appearing on TV talk shows and publishing memoirs, how-to guides and even business books. A high-profile TV movie about a host club aired last month, starring a dream roster of the country's hottest male actors. There are hundreds of such...
When women came to his studio just so they could experience the famous Stern leer, I accepted Stern's performance. I laughed at his inveterate truth telling...