Word: scowled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part will feel like something of a sequel to the 6-ft. 6-in. Tennessean, whose face seems permanently fixed in a leaden-browed scowl. He got his first test before the lights and cameras during the Senate Watergate Committee hearings. As the panel's 30-year-old Republican counsel, Thompson put aside party loyalty to ask ex-Nixon aide Alexander Butterfield the question that revealed the existence of a taping system in the White House. Says Thompson's mentor, Howard Baker, who was the Watergate Committee's top Republican: "He's a man of deep conviction and great steadiness...
...means, smile. The candidate sporting a silly grin beats the one wearing a scowl. Yes, Richard Nixon glided to a dark victory; but there's an exception to every rule. Consider Jimmy Carter after he discovered malaise. Consider George Bush after the economy slipped. Consider Bob Dole. And, by the way, it is the economy, stupid. People vote their ATM cards and money-market accounts. Other lessons, for good or for bad, peculiar to this campaign...
...attitude or praeteritio, as Dole practiced it in the first debate: "I've never discussed Whitewater, as I've told you personally. I'm not discussing Whitewater now." And then he went on to press Clinton on the Whitewater pardons. Dole delivered his broadsides with a hatchet and a scowl; the other guy with a stiletto and a smile...
Bring out the photo album of recollected parts: Bob Gibson's scowl, Stan Musial's shy smile, Junior Gilliam's wrists, Mickey Mantle's back, Don Mattingly's sloping shoulders...
...scenario has its soft spots, but it does allow Stone to adopt a white-trash Southern cadence and wear a persuasive dust-bowl scowl. In stir she sits and stares, her old sexual insolence tamped into sadness and contempt. She looks haggard, wiry, prickly--fabulous. By the end she is practically Garbo in Camille, the doomed woman comforting the gentle, lesser man who loves her. Stone does a fine job without surrendering her star quality. She just can't save this schematic story...