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...even a number called "Stiff Upper Lip"): he slinks around the stage in an unhealthy slouch, his face frozen in a mournful sneer. Another cartoon character with a face to match is Jansen, a Revenue Officers (Timothy Wallace), who rushes in and out pursuing those clever bootleggers, the scowl across his bulldog J. Edgar Hoover jowls growing deeper each time he's outwitted...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: What I Do, Do, Do Adore, Baby | 7/8/1975 | See Source »

Martial Arts. On the bridge, Captain James Scott, 48, the Forrestal's skipper and a former fighter pilot, watched the thunderous flight deck activities below with a cheerful scowl: "We can do this with a 200-ft. ceiling and three-quarter-mile visibility," he said in his Alabama drawl. "That's badass. We don't like it, but in a crunch we have that capability, even at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDITERRANEAN: Strong Fleet Without Friends | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

...heroic and romantic fustian. Rather than concede that his "higher love" for Raina is just or that his battlefield maneuvers are empty-headed, the idealist Sergius breaks down and crows cynically that the world is a hollow sham and life a farce. As Sergius, Timothy Cunningham and his perpetual scowl of a face execute the finest performance in the Loeb production. Cunningham brings to the role a pair of eyes that the properties manager could only have obtained from a ping-pong table, and as the part is laden with lugubrious, breast-beating lines, the eyes spend the better share...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Fleecing the Bulgarians | 4/16/1975 | See Source »

...Brewster here and they both live up to every expectation of Shaw's. The roles demand a lot of nuance from their actors--facial expressions and the slightest gestures must be just right--and both are admirable. Mosca has a certain half-smile that he can turn into a scowl as easily as a self-congratulatory smirk. Although his rages somehow seem more passionate than Napoleon probably was, the whole play seems to support that kind of style. After all, Shaw needed to build a rapport between Napoleon and the audience so he could get in his good lines about...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: A Rendezvous With Destiny | 12/14/1974 | See Source »

...soft-spoken drummer, admitted that he had no immediate professional plans. Asked why the band was breaking up, Bass Player Heath, 51, replied in tones less mellow than his music. "It wasn't our fault," he said with a scowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gentlemen of Jazz | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

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