Word: lippedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The new film version of Persuasion, directed by Roger Michell, seizes on this desperation, making it the film's emotional keynote. When Anne (Amanda Root) first appears, she seems almost panicked, with her pale face, thin-lipped grimace and wide, staring eyes. She is still stunned over the rupture with...
Copley also painted the populist stirrer Samuel Adams, whose writings were pointing the way to the Declaration of Independence. Adams was as poor as a church mouse and had to pose in borrowed clothes; the portrait was paid for by his friend John Hancock (he of the signature). It is...
Adelaide, convinced that her lingering head cold is the direct result of the psychological trauma brought on by Nathan's refusal to tie the knot, sneezes her way through one of the best musical theater songs ever written. And Toro, obviously enjoying himself, plays the crass and loose lipped New...
Yet, amidst the noise, there are moments of quiet. In sharp contrast to this head-strong, full-lipped, thick-thighed woman, Souljah is at times detached and even clinical. Her father is divorced from her life in a few sentences. Disappointments are mentioned and dismissed. Intentional or not, these silences...
Slichter was noted for being the tight-lipped spokesperson for the Corporation when be served as chair of the presidential search committee which appointed Rudenstine in 1992.