Word: smirked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...older sister. The younger sister, Miss Shoop, is somewhat less successful with her mouth hanging open all the time, although this seems more a matter of the director's misconception than Miss Shoop's perversity. The Step-mother, Miss Adams, has a little trouble overcoming an inadvertent smirk at the beginning, but she soon masters her urbanity and by the end is consummately cruel. When the Prince, Keith Gardiner, is singing, he is fine, but otherwise he is awkward, as is the King, Michael Pollatsek. Pollatsek, however, is supposed to be funny. One only wonders why he adopted the manner...
...There was the smirk of Hjalmar Schacht, in his neat office in Düsseldorf, insinuating politely: "Perhaps now you realize that it is not so easy for a people to get rid of demagogues just by wishing them to go away...
...SMIRK, SNEER, CONSPIRE, PLOT, DECEIVE, GLOAT, CONNIVE, LEER and DEFAME...