Word: scowled
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...Quiet Life. It is doubtful if Salazar likes either the salute or the slogan. Unlike all other modern dictators, he hates parades, pomp or cheers. When he rides to ceremonies with President Carmona, the old soldier preens and beams; Salazar slinks back in the car, a scowl on his handsome face with the Savonarola-hard mouth. Asked why he refused to respond to cheers, Salazar gave a characteristic answer: "I could not flatter the people without being a traitor to my own conscience. Our regime is popular but it is not a government of the masses, being neither influenced...
...Edward G. Robinson's implacable G-man. Loretta Young is just right as the harassed, threatened bride. Oldtime Vaudevillian Billy House earns some much-needed laughs as the village druggist. And Actor Welles, even though Director Welles has used too much film on shots of the petulant Welles scowl, is a convincing menace who richly deserves hissing...
...Dick Powell's second try (The first: Murder, My Sweet) in the sort of unshaven, tough-talking role usually reserved for Humphrey Bogart. This time Powell is a Canadian flyer, an ex-prisoner of the Nazis, with an ugly scar on his close-cropped head and a frozen scowl on his face. He is out to get the dirty collaborationist who murdered his young French wife. The chase takes him to South America and into a nest of fashionably dressed, fast-living people who are plainly plotting the next Nazi war of aggression. This shady and suspicious-looking...
...such experimental painting, sculpture or architecture. The Nazi-approved paintings were technically excellent, detailed, naturalistic studies like Stepp Hilz's tired pin-up girl Vanity. Hitler's favorite sculptor, Arno Breker, had ground out dozens of gladiators whose muscles, wrote Kirstein,. "seem pushed to explosion, the brows scowl in furrows with sincere paranoiac delusion. But they are not impressive...
...action we reprove so much? . . . The word eccellenza is derived, if we are not mistaken, from . eccellere [to excel]. Doesn't Nenni excel as a politician? We want excellent governors, and we are willing to call them Eccellenza. . . . And now we hope that Your Excellency will not scowl...