Word: smile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nice surprise too. His precise, unexploitative direction is sympathetic to the awkward pauses in teen talk, to the mopery of first love, to the suicidal bravado of words spoken in heat. Like Hughes, he is eager to let his fine young actors strut their stuff: McCarthy, his tight, knowing smile intoxicating every female in sight (and doesn't he know it); Cryer, prancing, caroming, jiving nonstop, exploding into a sublime lip synch of Otis Redding's Try a Little Tenderness; Ringwald, the henna-haired emotional anchor. With their help, any attentive moviegoer can walk into Pretty in Pink feeling...
Wanda: Let me tell you a little secret, Ralph. I married a lout. Who cares about the technology of orgasm? Sex is supposed to be part of a relationship, not a high school biology course. Some women have orgasms without contractions, and the white coats smile down and say, "Sorry, we can't count those because we can't measure them." Same old stuff of males using science to define and control women...
...trapped by poor screenwriting and character development. Hauer seems to regard his role as the methodically killing John Ryder as an irreparable joke, and therefore he plays the joke for all it's worth. When asked where he is from, Ryder quips "Disneyland," with a mocking half smile. Ryder is funny, but completely unthreatening...
...wheel itself. It may also be a function of Host Sajak, whose low-key, faintly ironic style is a welcome break from most game-show gush. "As a game- show host, there's always the temptation to do a parody of one, to do a rapid- fire delivery and smile a little more," says Sajak, 39, who was a weatherman for KNBC in Los Angeles before hopping aboard Wheel in late 1981. "But that's not my style...
Hodel, a former head of the Bonneville Power Administration, took the onslaught with outward calm and an occasional smile. Iacocca was fired, he suggested, chiefly because he got too big for his britches. "The statue is more than Lee Iacocca," he said. Hodel's justification was, at best, a bit thin. He insisted that there was a "potential conflict of interest" between Iacocca's role as chairman of the governmental advisory commission and his leadership of the private Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, the group that has been spectacularly successful in raising some $233 million for the restoration projects...