Word: scowling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talks constantly about the way-out future, yet he is also an intensely practical man who has made realities out of many of his early dreams. Immensely wealthy and forever faced with decisions about spending millions, he is nonetheless a penny pincher who makes waiters and taxi drivers scowl at his meager tips, is indifferent to carrying cash (his secretary presses pocket money on him just before he goes on every trip) and always takes a single room rather than a suite when he is staying in a hotel. He is often shy and inarticulate among strangers...
...usual mighty scowl plastered across his face, World Heavyweight Champion Sonny Listen, 29, arrived in Norway on a barnstorming jaunt through Scandinavia, but the 25,000 fans who paid their way in to watch him spar made Listen sunny. Even the news that his proposed fight this week with showy but second-rate German Heavyweight Uli Ritter was off could not dampen his spirits. He hied himself to a Swedish bastu (steam bath) and had himself steamed and scourged with branches until he was his jovially ferocious self again...
When Holman finished, Daley stalked out scowling. Next day he had still more to scowl about: as he marched through downtown Chicago at the head of the N.A.A.C.P.'s Independence Day parade, there were some ominous portents-signs saying such things as MAYOR DALEY, WHAT IN HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE? And when, at parade's end, Daley tried to address a throng of some 20,000, a terrible to-do broke loose. As Daley faced the crowd, there were boos, hisses, and chants of "Daley must go ... Down with ghettos." For more than ten minutes...
Collector Chrysler had put on this same exhibition last summer in his own museum, a converted Methodist church in Provincetown, Mass. There the doubtful bona fides of many paintings won a scowl of worried if secret disapproval from the Art Dealers Association of America. The association had been formed early this year by a group of top Manhattan dealers to protect the public against shoddy practices and shady dealers; this was its first big occasion to act. Unobtrusively, the association got its able counsel, Ralph Colin, to try to warn Canadian art officials that the show, which was scheduled...
...sulky, clever little girl (Karen Balkin), brooding over a punishment, hits intuitively on a devastating lie: she tells her grandmother that she has seen the two teachers embracing. Here Wyler's notion of registering childish malevolence is to have twelve-year-old Actress Balkin roll her eyes, scowl, bare her teeth and jerk her head back like a duchess regarding a spider, every time she is on-camera. To make sure no one misses the significance of those moments when the girl is hatching her nastiness, Wyler underscores with vibrant significance music. Composer Alex North's score...