Word: smirking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tcherkassky spins mad circles on the tips of her toes. Van Hamel lunges through the air, landing with a shimmy and a smirk...
...announcer than an actor, but every once in a while he exhibits a flash of comic timing. ("Is my face dirty, dear," Constance asks him prissily as she gets ready for her wedding night, "or is it just my imagination?" "Your face is clean," he says with a smirk, "but I don't know about your imagination.") McCarthy, as the arch and witty but secretly vulnerable Kay--a role that was written for Gertrude Lawrence--has a some what more difficult job; by the end of the play, all the male characters are pledging her their undying devotion, she plays...
...late '60s, in the midst of sup posedly affluent times, The New Yorker fell upon bitter days: tumbling circula tion, reduced advertising. Reluctantly, Eustace Tilley wiped off his smirk and rolled up his sleeves. For the first time in its history, the magazine printed a table of contents. Soon afterward, a bold pro motional campaign was launched, an nouncing that The New Yorker, yes, The New Yorker - which in palmier days had had a waiting list of advertisers - was actually soliciting business. Fortunately, the enterprise had accumulated enough wealth - and enough loyal writers, art ists and subscribers - to weather...
...every expectation of Shaw's. The roles demand a lot of nuance from their actors--facial expressions and the slightest gestures must be just right--and both are admirable. Mosca has a certain half-smile that he can turn into a scowl as easily as a self-congratulatory smirk. Although his rages somehow seem more passionate than Napoleon probably was, the whole play seems to support that kind of style. After all, Shaw needed to build a rapport between Napoleon and the audience so he could get in his good lines about the English...
Such advice to the sexlorn might arouse little more than a smirk from U.S. and Western European readers accustomed to more sophisticated counsel. The Russians, however, are virtually panting for the suggestions, which appear in an astonishingly frank sex survey sponsored by the puritanical Soviet government. Female Sexual Pathology, a 189-page paperback illustrated with a handful of blurry photographs of lesbians and transvestites, sold out in its first few days in Soviet bookstores and is currently the hottest-selling item on the Moscow black market, where curious Communists are shelling out more than 50 times the book...