Word: leers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went on to describe the dictator in images redolent of death, decay and sickness. Stalin's "fingers are fat as grubs," his "cockroach whiskers leer," his laws are like horseshoes to fling "at the head, the eye or the groin." One version of the poem ended with Stalin savoring every execution like a raspberry...
...When we recite the roll of the boring [July 13], how can we leave out that evangelist of bisexualism, Gore Vidal? And who could think of either Vidal or boredom without thinking of the King of Leer, William F. Buckley Jr.? Who could be more tiresome than Billy Graham? The list is obviously far from complete...
...guile-lessness making at once for high comedy and fine acting. Llody Schwartz's Kolenkhov is a natural scene-stealer. He pronounces "The Monte Carlo Ballet" with just the right Bela Lugosi intonation, he talks and gestures like a proud Rasputin fallen on bad times, and his Romanov leer is so hilariously Russian that one can smell the caviar in the pit. George Mager's classic internal revenue agent scene is a stunning shtic planted in the first act. And Suzanne Sato's wonderful costumes are more convincing than those in any other period piece I've seen...
...crises. "The whole essence of the Masters and Johnson interviews, like the Masters and Johnson therapy, was that there were no interruptions, and no crucial stages," she reports. "In fact, when you are talking with them about sex, it seems impossible that the subject could ever be something people leer at, wink and giggle about. It is always very calm, very pleasant, but there are no side issues and no distractions...
...creditable imitation of the famed brothers, it is Lewis J. Stadlen as Groucho who achieves inspired mimicry. He has the best lines. (Groucho always did.) He has all the rest too: the eyes and eyebrows that whip up and down like window shades, the fluent crouch, the quick leer and the quicker wit of an urban bordello cavalier. He is a great credit to the show and-the ultimate compliment-to Groucho...