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...basketball games in the House gym, and legislative strategy is still crafted over cigars and bourbon in musty cloakrooms. Only 22 of the 435 House members are female, and they are regarded warily by the Capitol's male denizens. Women in Congress must not whine, they must not pout and they most certainly must never cry. They must overcome all the stereotypes that many Congressmen, like some other males, have not yet shed about the opposite and allegedly weaker...
...Walking south from Littlestone was drearier in sunshine than it would have been in fog or rain, because the bright light exposed every woeful bungalow ..." "Most villages and towns wore a pout of rejection." "None of this made the town of Portsmouth visibly interesting, because nothing could." "I saw that Dawlish was small and dull." "Every house was identical, and equally ugly." "I saw British people lying stiffly on the beach like dead in sects." "I came to hate Aberdeen more than any other place I saw." "Up close, Deny was frightful." "I decided that I had seen few places...
Some in the Administration are confidently predicting that when the moment of truth arrives, the Soviets will find a way of avoiding a walkout or at least of limiting it to a token temper tantrum, a brief pout before getting back to the bargaining table. Another fashionable view in Washington right now is that regardless of their extreme distaste for the Reagan Administration, the Soviet leaders are pragmatic enough to realize that they need a breakthrough in the arms talks at least as much as the U.S. does, and that they probably stand to get a better deal before November...
Pouty sultriness seems to be in high demand these days, and Debra Winger, 27, has the pout that everyone touts. Through Urban Cowboy and An Officer and a Gentleman, her tousled curls and hazel eyes have made her a box-office wonder and an agent's dream. Next up are Mike's Murder, due out this fall, and Terms of Endearment, now filming in Nebraska, in which she plays the difficult daughter of Shirley MacLaine, 49. Early whispers report a battle offscreen as well as on between Winger and MacLaine. The onetime Irma la Douce used to toss...
...Kinski. Every feature of her young body comes to life before its lens. The wide, gray-green eyes send out satellite signals of precocity or perversity. The dewy skin holds, on the left cheek, a tiny scar, like a bookmark in a turbulent autobiography. The lips, extravagantly full, can pout or preen or tauten resolutely or open in an elfin smile. The long Botticelli neck carries the eye to a strange and strong body, with delicate breasts, expressive musculature and the strong haunches of a peasant girl or a centaur. Kinski is a true camera animal because these disparate, classically...