Word: scowled
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...sheet of glass that floats above an immaculate Zen rock garden?is strewn with the bodies of dismembered yak-uza. A willowy blonde with wild eyes, clad in a blood-smeared yellow tracksuit, brandishes her Samurai sword, preparing to dispatch three more victims. She grits her teeth. The yakuza scowl back. As sword meets flesh and the three villains slam backwards through a wooden lattice, the mastermind behind the mayhem can't suppress a smile. "Pow!" exults an elated Quentin Tarantino, bounding from his perch beside the camera to congratulate Uma Thurman, the killer blonde, on a beautifully executed fight...
...village where Jau Phaendin was born." My wife explains her quest and the woman leads us through a maze of backstreets to a house with a handsome Dai roof, crouched in the shadows of tiled apartment blocks. We knock, and a man named Saengau answers the door with a scowl that fades as Sawitree explains her story. "Come in, come in," he smiles, calling his wife. They were once dancers at the King's palace, Saengau explains, and he is related to Jau Phaendin. "Very sad, very sad," he says. "I had to run when they came to smash...
Unfortunately, the blocking is not all that is static. The preferred acting style of the cast involves choosing one note in which to plant a character—and never breaking from it. Korich’s note in playing the antagonist is well-chosen—a dark scowl and a booming voice calculated to intimidate all those in his path—but it prevents him from finding the subtleties expressed by his character’s humor. As Lt. Cmdr. JoAnn Galloway, the passionate but inexperienced attorney who assists Kaffee, Marcie Ulin ’02 comes...
...songs are mainly playful and self-effacing. On “You’re Quiet,” he croons “I need a pickup / And I don’t mean a truck”—delivered with a sardonic scowl, the song was robbed of any glee that appeared on the album. For an artist rebuilding himself, it hardly seems good business to reject special requests from his fans, but fortuitously, Benson’s music manages to overcome his personal aloofness...
Walking into a lecture hall late, you earn a professor’s scowl, or at least a seat in Siberia. But sometimes good things come to those who are late...