Word: scowled
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...Sierra Madre, risking his mates' lives to make the big score; finally, he nears the daft steeliness of The Caine Mutiny's Captain Queeg. Clooney bends his genial machismo to these darker shadings. But the movie needs him only to be a hero, an action figure with a genial scowl, expectorating cliches like "So this is the moment of truth. This is where we separate the men from the boys." He really says that...
...continues to deny competitors such as Microsoft, Tribal Voice and Odigo (blocked, Odigo says, six times in the past two weeks) access to its teeming Instant Messaging network, the online giant floated a proposal that would throw open the doors. Politically, the proposal is perfect for softening the scowl of trustbusters eyeing the AOL-Time Warner merger, and it's also very handy technically in that it doesn't offer any details whatsoever on how outside linkups would be allowed. That, according to AOL, is a security issue, and the company left it to the Internet Engineering Task Force...
...college coach, UCLA's legendary John Wooden, could not be greater. One thing that really stands out about Knight is that it's always about him. He's a lot like Dennis Rodman, with his calculated self-promotion. John Wooden was the antithesis of the anger, the scowl, the selfishness. With Coach Wooden, an Indiana native, life was always fun, always upbeat, always positive, always about the team, always about the greatness of the game. Sadly, you don't get any sense of that from Knight. There's no joy. Even worse, there's no happiness on the faces...
...films' tone varied: they could teach with a smile, a scowl or a sneer. Some had progressive messages, favoring family planning, opposing witch hunts and racial prejudice. Others could leave lasting scars. Sid Davis' socio-splatter movies often ended in violent death, simply because a boy had driven too fast or hitched a ride with a homosexual. In Davis' babes-in-bandage Live and Learn, kids get impaled on scissors, blinded by BB blasts, or run over while playing baseball on the street. If only they'd watched this movie...
...detector, one that would be far more reliable and much less intrusive than existing polygraphs, which measure such reactions as heartbeat and sweating that clever subjects can control. Says Bartlett: "It would spot in an instant any facial movement that indicated a conflicting emotion, like a beginning of a scowl quickly covered up by a smile...