Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feelings or flaunt stylistic achievement. In this record of the greatest show on earth the poet breaks his reserve only to let a little wryness creep into certain turns of phrase, sudden words that seem to betray a tiny, noncommital wrinkle at the corner of the mouth. But this is an individuality which does not mar the observational clarity of the poems...
...Mann's story of a high-school tennis player and his girl. Mann withholds few details of malt-shop and classroom courtship and consequently manages to portray a few scenes and feelings in high school life rather accurately. Mann's autobiography, however, begins to drool a little at the mouth; if he had left out much of the diary-writing at the end, he might have seemed much less involved and his story might have had more punch...
...preserving it in the process. On the panel underneath was an encaustic painting which churchmen of the Middle Ages had apparently thought too old-fashioned to keep. The ancient Madonna gazes with Byzantine intensity from eyes wide and dark as night. She has the classic profile and small, thoughtful mouth of late Roman art. Experts agree that the picture must have been painted only four or five centuries after Christ's birth...
...natural freshness and simplicity pervade the whole performance. Her dancing is light and graceful; even when she is downtrodden, she is never bedraggled. Miss Goldsmith's caustic voice is most appropriate for her rendition of the older sister. The younger sister, Miss Shoop, is somewhat less successful with her mouth hanging open all the time, although this seems more a matter of the director's misconception than Miss Shoop's perversity. The Step-mother, Miss Adams, has a little trouble overcoming an inadvertent smirk at the beginning, but she soon masters her urbanity and by the end is consummately cruel...
...shows in show business. A retinue of eleven follows him wherever he goes. He is attended by an associate producer, a personal female aide, a couple of press-agents, a dialogue director, two script girls, a secretary, an assistant director, a mike boy to thrust a microphone before his mouth whenever he feels like really thinking out loud, and a chair boy to slip a chair under him whenever he feels (in the manner of Queen Victoria) in the mood for sitting...