Word: smirk
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...wolf-whistling periodicals. In all, there are more than 40 playkids on the market, and they are fast outstripping the scandal sheets. The most successful of the upstarts are monthlies, with such names as Caper, Nugget, Rogue, Escapade and Cabaret. Like Playboy ( TIME, Sept. 24), they trade in the smirk, the leer and the female torso-only more so. Latest addition to the wolf pack, out this week, is a Negro monthly called Duke...
...watch yet one more theological striptease-the cinemactic kind in which the moviegoer is encouraged to sit for about two hours in the dark with a faintly lewd leer on his face, and yet at the last minute is permitted to walk out of the theater wearing a pious smirk. The problem could hardly have been muffed by the dumbest director, but for some reason it was assigned to one of the brightest boys in Hollywood-John Huston, director of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen and Beat the Demi. And Huston, as nobody will be surprised...
...favor political failure and social commentary, walk swiftly into the room, quickly close the door, stride across the room and pull down the shade, then clasp the interviewer's hand in yours and say, "Comrade!" The frankest approach and perhaps the easiest way to fail is to smirk as you shake hands and say, "Is this really necessary...
...types, the actors turn this bedlam into constant comedy. As chief thief, Guinness wears enormous sweaters, a ten foot scarf, and chipmunk teeth. The stare of a worried, weird master-mind that often adorns his face can merge effortlessly into an upset smile of sudden defeat or a polished smirk of careless confidence. Gliding through perpetual intrigue, Guinness is at his best...
...close while he drives Ryan's cattle from Texas to Montana. Come Sioux or stampede, jayhawker or dust devil, nothing bothers Clark-except, of course, the fact that he has to act. But like most of his parts, this one requires nothing much but his anxious little smirk. On the other hand, he seems comfortably conscious (as moviegoers will be awkwardly aware) that the winds which howl about his hairdo do not shake the trees in the processed backgrounds; and he arrives in Montana looking as fresh as a 54-year-old daisy can. At that point, Jane spreads...