Word: miens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Agitprop. The players invest the slapdash plot with wit and perfect timing. Wheeling on crutches necessitated by a recent stage fall, Lloyd's Bill has a saturnine piratical mien worthy of Long John Silver. Though slightly reedy of voice, Meryl Streep renders the Brecht lines with impeccable intelligence. The marvel of the evening is the Kurt Weill score, arguably superior to that of The Threepenny Opera...
...face of it, nothing could be more preposterous than this story of the love affair between the oddest couple in popular culture: a blonde whose beauty is matched only by her dimness of mind (at least in the original) and an ape who is 40 ft. tall, fierce of mien and manner, yet at heart just a big adolescent, bumbling spectacularly through the throes of his first-often literally crushing-crush. At best it is low camp, at worst a lunacy that should have sent people howling into the night long before Kong hauled himself...
...debt to the student riots of the late '60s. A semanticist with an excellent reputation among academics, Hayakawa was approaching retirement age in 1968 when he was made acting president of San Francisco State College. The school had been sundered by violent demonstrations. Short, normally mild of mien and sporting a tam-o'-shanter, Hayakawa became an instant celebrity when he summoned riot police to the campus and suppressed the radical uprising. At one point the scholar personally ripped the wires from the protesters' public address system in mid-diatribe. Today he says: "I had to become...
Heavy Accent. As for Giscard himself, he responded to President Ford's welcoming remarks with a friendly gesture that would have dismayed one of his predecessors, Charles de Gaulle, who maintained a haughtily arrogant mien throughout his eight-day visit to the U.S. in 1960. Turning to Ford, Giscard said, "Now, Mr. President, permit me to be my own interpreter," and he proceeded to give his nation's greetings entirely in English. When he spoke of both countries' "identical passion for independence and liberty," it was with a heavy accent. But President Giscard had gone...
...Donleavy an inverted romanticism, a genuine attachment to the order and chivalry of the aristocracy, a sadness that living is not what he would conceive it or hope it to be. In the jacket photo, Donleavy's face is wary, truculent even, thoroughly distrustful. You suspect the jaunty mien, the gentlemanly deportment, is a carefully constructed guise. "I live and draw a flow of gold," Balthazar B thinks to himself, "from a dead father's reservoir of riches. Behind my own lonely elegance. Where no one will ever again get to know me. And speak less and less." Donleavy...