Word: smirking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHETHER God is dead or not, his angels seem to be. The angel in 1970 is mere commercial décor-a mothlike doll with pink wings and a smirk of good cheer, dangling amid the glitter balls on a thousand plastic Yule trees or twanging its polystyrene harp in the window of a Brooklyn store. In fact, Christmas is about the only area of our culture in which angels survive at all. An archangel, Gabriel, told the Virgin Mary that she would bear the son of God; it was an angel (progenitor of a billion Christmas cards) who appeared...
...intelligent use of what has become a hackneyed editing cover-up-the reaction shot. James Earl Jones knows what Johnson was all about; if the boxer learned to resent most white men, he also pitied his black mammy and scorned the life she led. Ritt plugged in Jones' knowing smirk enough times to keep me some-what interested in the overheated proceedings...
...male chauvinists were out in droves. I'd been back no less than three days, when a kid walked up to me in the street and said, "Hey, are you married?" "No," I said, icily. "Well then," he demanded, giving me the old Don Ameche wink, and smirk, "howdja like to take me home with...
...imagery and influence from Mr. Lawrence's "real life." And, finally, just as somewhere in yourself you begin to feel that Lawrence really is pretty great, quite uncanny in the power of his perceptions and vision, ?apl they pull the rug out from under you. Sectionman will begin to smirk. "But, then," he'll whine, "the older I get, the less I like Lawrence. There is something so adolescent about his work. He becomes so [pause] tedious [long, sustained exhale]." Well, perhaps. But to achieve such dubious critical acumen at the expense of surrendering the remaining shretls...
...Never darken my door again unless it's for keeps," and "Which is worse, the heart abused or the heart unused?" For those who cannot answer that question, the film provides a clue: when the boy friend finally arrives with a divorce decree, ten-carat ring and oleaginous smirk, Fran decides that Real Love, after all, is the only game in town...