Word: mien
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cast, most of whom are ostensibly her fellow wards, does seem more like babysitter than sister). But they do look older than anyone else on stage, and consequently, their various excesses--incessant mugging from Devenish, a curious lack of passion from West, and a slightly humorless, banker-like mien from Crowley--are all the more pronounced...
Considering that the members of the cast are in their late teens and early 20s, the evening is studded with exemplary performances. Lonny Price brings an agonizing honesty and the humorous, woebegone mien of Woody Allen to the role of Franklin's lyric-writing collaborator. Ann Morrison is perky and personable as an alcoholic film critic who relives her younger self as a smart, surging novelist...
...national media events, Oney won a prize for the best Sunday magazine story of the year with a lengthy impressionistic piece on Leary, Ga. Leary is a remote town some 60 miles south of Plains, where Oney lived for several weeks to research his piece. The quiet and reflective mien he assumes when discussing what he observed in Leary leave no doubt that the experience profoundly affected him. A lifelong Southerner, Oney realized that places still do exist "where nothing has essentially changed since the Civil...
...painter of pale, chalky allegories, figure compositions with gravely flattened and somewhat elongated bodies, whose work was admired by Van Gogh, Gauguin and the symbolists of the 1890s, as well as young Turks like Picasso. He had studied Puvis's frescoes in the Pantheon, and their upright, formalized mien gave the measure to his big allegory of young love and despair, La Vie, 1903. (Originally the young man in the painting was a self-portrait, but Picasso turned it into the face of Carlos Casagemas, the friend who had come with him to Paris from Barcelona and then committed suicide...
...Barragán is a towering (6 ft. 6 in.), craggy man of charming mien and Old World manners. He has never married and lives in the house he designed for himself years ago at the edge of El Pedregal. Characteristically it presents a nearly blank wal to the street. For Barragán is above all an architect of seclusion of serenity in a noisy world. Says he: "Art is made by the alone for the alone...