Word: smirk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come here unless I thought we'd have a reasonable chance of winning a national title," the Kirkland House resident says. "There are a lot of great hockey players here that are really into school--they're true student-athletes. I couldn't honestly call myself that without a smirk on my face. My first priority was to pick a school that would be on the doorstep of a championship. I would never, never go to a school that was going...
...success of this technique is probably due in large part to Gillian Lynne's direction. in the middle of Act I Jeeves begins telling his part of the story by saying "Employers are like horses--both need to be managed." The timing of the line, combined with the slight smirk that Duke wears on his face as he delivers it, gives credence to the great chemistry that Lynne and Duke share...
...Bill, do you think I will ever learn to stop using this snowshoe position?" "Noooooo Problem." "Bill, am I advanced enough to go down `Kissing Cousin?'" "Noooooo Problem." "Bill, could you get a real life, beginning by wiping that self-satisified smirk off your sickeningly cheerful face...
...coil themselves in hauteur. So at times Malkovich plays the evil dandy too diligently; on his brow you can almost see the fop sweat. Then gradually he learns to trust the intimacy of Frears' close-up camera style. The lizard eyes crease with desire; tiny curlicues of smirk rise from the corners of his mouth; the wispy voice locates the moral malaise at the heart of Valmont's debauchery. He embodies the cynical wisdom of this excellent film: life is one big performance art, and sex is a little death...
Factually speaking, I wasn't really in the Eliot House dining hall, but with Dan Quayle unable to wipe a smirk off his burnt flash-bulb of a face, and with George Bush--George Bush--finally able to look old Ron in the eye and say, "Well, pard...," it sure feels like I'm choking on a nation-wide haze of loose strands of woollen argyle and wafting fumes of Bean's Best Leather Oil. So I decided to get on a train. Heading north...