Word: lipping
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...best-dressed list to high-priced one-man shows of his work. He acquired wealthy and titled patrons wherever he displayed his work or himself. But if he appeared elegant and unconcerned to staring onlookers, he was demoralized when alone. Gazing at the mirror, he noted, "The upper lip has become longer. The mouth a thin bitter line, the eyes tragic, old and wild and of a great sadness. Were there no redeeming features...
...British empire, on which the sun never set, that originally spread English around the world, along with tea breaks, cuffed trousers and the stiff upper lip. But when the imperial sun finally did set after World War II, the American language followed American power into the vacuum. Key reason: the language has a rare forcefulness and flexibility. Even the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary last month incorporated such Americanisms as yuppie and zilch. Explained Editor Robert Burchfield: "Our language is changing slowly, and America is leading the way now, not Britain...
...cartoon character with an anvil suspended over its head," and a forest "seemed alive with hokey B-movie jungle drums." Then there are the stranger entertainments about entertainment, from the small army of Elvis impersonators to the TV game show Puttin' On the Hits, on which ordinary folks lip-sync pop songs. With Entertainment...
...time when Harvard could quietly bolster racism and disenfranchisment with its endowment while paying lip-service to ideals of justice and compassion has passed, and we must tell that to President Bok. We must tell him with our voices raised from beneath the tower which overlooks the drawn shades of his office...
...Brenneman delivers perhaps the finest performance as the narrator Nelly Dean, another servant at Wuthering Heights. Her Rickie Lee Jones lip-synchs are convincing, almost soulful, and she anchors the loosely constructed production with a quiet but firm presence...