Word: owlish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leaning into the microphone, Dean, 34, spoke in a lifeless monotone that would long be remembered by TV audiences. There were just enough unexpected angles and lines in his face, including a slightly crooked grin, to rescue it from mediocrity. Thanks to a pair of glasses, he looked more owlish than his earlier, boyish pictures had suggested. With impressive poise and a masterly memory, Dean spun his detailed web of evidence. He readily admitted his own illegal and improper acts. But he emerged unshaken from five full days of recital and crossexamination, with his basic story challenged but intact...
From his 25th-floor office, Judge Saul A. Epton, a soft-spoken and slightly owlish man of 62, surveyed the wintry expanse of Lake Michigan and reflected on his new post in the circuit court of Cook County: "This is paradise. It's boring but it's paradise...
...Owlish glasses magnify the seemingly perpetual expression of pained skepticism. The mouth is ever pursed in disapproval. The voice ranges in timbre from the crackle of dried twigs under a hostile foot to the rasp of fingernails across a blackboard. Along with these qualities Lawrence E. Spivak conveys the agility of a mongoose awaiting the right moment to strike a superior adversary and the assurance of a man who knows everything worth knowing about the topic at hand. This Sunday, when he clears his throat, adjusts the pillow seat that makes him look taller on camera, and thumbs the stack...
Christopher Gable, the boy friend to be, comes over to remove Twiggy's owlish spectacles. Pause. Gasp. "Why Polly!" he gulps, "You're beautiful." Beautiful she is not. She dances wonderfully; she sings the light pseudo-twenties songs with just the right lilting soprano, but her acting puts her back in the assistant stage manager position where she started. Ms. Jackson, who appears for a few short minutes as the show's erstwhile star, does not shine here as an actress either. The film belongs entirely to director Ken Russell, who has her appear leg first--sporting an enormous white...
HERBERT STEIN, 55, an owlish and acerb economic theoretician, is a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. He is now responsible for planning Phase 2 of the Nixon strategy: what comes after the 90-day freeze. Known for an intellectual agility that some dismiss as sophistry, he will need to be nimble in the task; for several years he has been a determined spokesman against the sort of policy Nixon finally adopted...