Word: scowled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...common man playing out his most banal fantasies. And, the film implies, anyone with the will can be Adolph Hitler. Hitler is climactically embodied by an actor in lengthy monologue, dressed in the togas of Nero, rising up from Wagner's grave, his faced piqued in totalitarian scowl...
...ENGLAND wasn't good-looking, but Antonia Fraser makes him very attractive. It's not a difficult task. In Fraser's new biography, Royal Charles, she points out that even so sedate a lady as Queen Victoria found Charles II the most appealing of her predecessors. Despite the permanent scowl that marks all his surviving portraits, Charles II, immensely popular in his own day, had a romantic allure that has lasted to our own century. A dashing young prince and then a recklessly debauched monarch, he remains great fun to read about...