Word: rakishness
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...Seattle; 18,000 in Atlanta; 50,000 in Amherst, Mass. In fact, stop for stop, she frequently outdrew Mondale. That was doubtless due in part to the novelty of her candidacy, but Ferraro also became a consummate pro at working audiences, acknowledging chants of "Gerry! Gerry!" with a rakish wave and confident smile...
...title suggests, the plot centers around the name Ernest and the troubles which arise when Jack, a young country gentleman of dubious origin, invents a rakish, city-dwelling brother named Ernest whose escapades provide him with an excuse to venture to London. Similarly, Jack's friend, Algernon, has invented a sickly friend, Bonburry, whose continual illnesses provide him, Algernon, with a reason to avoid dinners with his stuffy aunt, Lady Bracknel. It all gets messy when both Algernon and Jack fall in love with women who insist they can only marry men named Ernest...
...Here that means highlighting each word and gesture so that it plays for a modern audience. In Much Ado Hands digs deep into a bag that must be marked TRICKS THAT WORK. A courtly messenger declaims his prose in an Elmer Fudd accent; Benedick parades his manhood with the rakish tilt of his sword sheath; Constable Dogberry (Christopher Benjamin) casually flings a purse in the air, and his deputy Verges catches it in his hat. The gags, however earthbound, raise laughs hearty enough to fill Broadway's biggest house. But around the surefire comic bits, Hands continues to deploy...
Vanessa, we learn, has more in mind than just winning PS. It seems the boy's rakish father, a handsome, drunken gold digger who's quite the ladies' man, had an affair with Vanessa years ago. By getting his son, she hopes to lure him back. But Logan, hardly the fatherly type, breezes into town only long enough to tie one on and perhaps sign a new set of papers, beseeched by both sisters for sole guardianship rights...
...that would explain the glint of pawky self-dramatization in many of the poses: Prince Charles sporting his riding silks with 18th century aplomb; Novelist Iris Murdoch slumped back in a chair, wrapped in a scarf, head cocked appraisingly; Actor Alec Guinness leaning jauntily against a tree, wearing a rakish peasant hat. The lighting is soft and natural throughout; the camera's gaze is direct and steady (and it is returned just as steadily by most of the subjects). Snowdon has mastered an elegance that never loses its simplicity. Indeed, in his best portraits-for instance, a serene, Vermeer...