Word: miens
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...came a sudden stage direction: "Hey, stop chewing gum. You're getting your picture taken." David slowed his jaws momentarily, grasped Tony's reins and waited for his sisters to get in beside him. As the photographers fired at will, Barbara Anne, 6, assumed a dignified mien, staring thoughtfully out across the presidential fields. Susan, almost 4, watched skeptically and clutched her doll, whose name changes almost daily (current one: Drew Hushing Eisenhower...
...have been wondering who wrote your Cinema reviews, and now I am satisfied to see that his face [Oct. 31] goes with the mind. A more supercilious, all-knowing, smart-alecky mien I've yet to see. It seems a shame that a man of his wit and writing ability doesn't remember that constructive criticism is always worth more than destructive criticism...
Kitchen-Table Medici. The new kind of tiger keeps his nails closely trimmed and highly polished, spreads a heavy coating of talcum over his blue-shaven jaws, wears dark blue suits bought (price range: $75-$90) at Abe Stark's Brooklyn store, has the worldly and weighted mien of a Medici, and goes by the nickname of "The Bishop." He lives in a four-room apartment furnished in a style something less than half way between 1920 Grand Rapids and 1955 Park Avenue. There, one recent morning, Carmine De Sapio was taking his own sort of grassroots samplings...
...private life of Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, often rumored to be the richest man in the world, was as heavily shrouded from the public gaze as the vast, subterranean oil pools on which his huge fortune was built. Gulbenkian, a square, bald man of medium height and undistinguished mien, liked it that way. "I have only one friend," he said once, "and his name is solitude." Last week, in the spacious, ornate Lisbon hotel suite where he lived since 1942, Calouste Gulbenkian, 86, slipped quietly out of the world of the living, still grasping the hand of his only friend...
...against ex-Governor Adhemar de Barros. Jânio and Adhemar are both magnificently mustachioed, and Adhemar is almost as expert as Jânio at platform histrionics, but there the resemblance ends. Adhemar, 53, multimillionaire proprietor of a well-oiled political machine, is expensively tailored, hearty of mien and exuberant of speech...