Word: smirk
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...fuss? For starters, Mecham, 63, has a daunting image problem. A veritable faux pas factory sporting a constant smirk and a vindictive manner, Mecham strikes many voters as a simpleminded ideologue who is giving a bad name to the nation's second-fastest-growing state. After rescinding the Jan. 19 holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr., Mecham defended the use of the term "pickaninnies" for blacks. In February he asked for a list of state employees who are gay. Says Republican State Representative Jane Hull: "This state has had enough. It's just getting too damaging...
...more than "Buy My Records," the best Bragg slogan is his cheerful smirk, "You'd be surprised." He applies it to the marketability of political pop music as well as to a mischievous fantasy about how easily the Lone Star State could turn into the Red Star State...
...more film. Then Roger Moore took over for seven episodes. Amiable and reliable, he nonetheless walked through his part like a waxwork on casters and left the heavy jobs to his stunt doubles. The series aged with him; it was in danger of becoming a travelogue with a smirk. Perhaps 007 was finally ready for his pension...
...Director Adrian Lyne, whose 9 1/2 Weeks was truncated to avoid the toxic X, self-censorship is as bad as the government variety: "People are avoiding making certain types of movies, and that's real unhealthy." Instead of intense eroticism, Hollywood peddles giggle-and-jiggle movies: sex with a smirk...
...name's Charles Doorite," said a young man with half glasses and full smirk. "I've been working seriously with prose since I was five. Recently, I've become personally acquainted with many New York writers through my mother and internships at The Paris Review and The Atlantic. Kanopf is bringing out the first of my three completed novels next year...