Word: pouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cabinet. Angry at criticism within the Labor Party of his handling of the Yom Kippur War, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan had pulled an Achilles-like withdrawal and announced that he would not serve in the next Cabinet "under existing conditions" - meaning, presumably, that he would pout on the sidelines until the critics said that they were sorry. "I have asked him, I am asking him, and I will ask him to serve in the new Cabinet," a weary Meir told reporters. "And I hope he will...
...brown and dying; not the round, pink living thing it once would become; when pressed and bruised with kisses. It seems more desperate now. It's fullness never opens slightly, seducing the quietest breath of appreciation, or pain. It seems the dead, angry thing it is. The perpetual pout, not a sultry coyness, but the pout of dismissing the world...
...Pacino's Richard could be taken for a failed Mafia assassin seeking asylum. The left sleeve of his green knit pullover bunches around some unspeakable wound of a hand. The yarn in the shoulder stretches obscenely over his hump. His cheeks quiver with little tics. His lips pout in private arrangements of humor and rage. When he speaks, Elizabethan English seems to acquire a Sicilian accent: Shakespeare out of The Godfather...
...games the characters play. When he's ahead, his high spirits bubble. He moves, and even prepares his caviar, with the rhythm of his Cole Porter 78's. But after even slight reversals in the plot, his face turns slightly sour; give him greater trouble and he'll pout; and if you beat him, why then he's momentarily lost, his virility sapped, though his rolling tongue will still grope for words with which to snatch victory...
...pushing 35 or 40, and the ducktailed boys of the '50s no longer have grease in their hair-if they have hair at all. Elvis, however, still sounds and looks almost like 1957. His hair, to be sure, is a little less shiny, and the famous Presley pout, an expression of his nearly platonic narcissism, has been replaced by the genial smile of acceptance and affluence. After 32 movies and untold millions in box-office receipts and record sales, Elvis at 37 is in many ways bigger than ever...