Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...center of sympathy in the film is Baron Raoul (Charles Boyer), an aristocrat whose purpose in life has been to dissipate a fabulous century-old fortune. "It was very satisfying," he says of this experience. He is old now, and penniless, with only his courtliness and wry smile left, but he defends his dead friend Stavisky before the Parliamentary inquiry much as Talleyrand might have defended himself before a revolutionary tribunal: you didn't know what it was like to live, he testifies, if you hadn't lived in Stavisky's world. In the end, he tilts the film...
...compare last year's crew to this one? Stumped, he looks over the windshield of his launch-the long Parker pause. And then, rolling his eyes back once more, a broad smile creeps across his face...
...cakes!' The warm scent of fried batter rose in the drafty hall ... 'Street where all the Old People live, wake up! Miss Helen Loomis, Colonel Freeleigh, Miss Bentley! Cough, get up, take pills, move around! ... The sun began to rise. He folded his arms and smiled a magician's smile. Yes, sir, he thought, everyone jumps, everyone runs when I yell. It'll be a fine season...
Alceste (Alec McCowen) is not a misanthrope in the sense that he hates mankind. He hates the web of social hypocrisy in which men and women entangle themselves. He hates everything that in Eliot's words is "as false as a smile and the shake of a hand." His insistence on absolute candor is blind, humorless and therefore funny. He is a moral prig who thinks of himself as the only honest man alive, and he wants the world to recognize it. He tells the truth till it hurts-others. Still, he raises an important question of principle. When...
Although not a soul departed Kennedy library architect I.M. Pei's office Thursday without a smile on his face and a blissful statement about cooperation and convergence on the objectives of the library, all did not go so well at the meeting for Harvard, the city or the community...