Word: smirking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fault which finally dooms this movies is that the characters aren't even lovable idiots. As portrayed in this film, every character is as flat as a cartoon. Flatter in fact--the Smurfs have more life and vibrancy than this crew. The talented Lily Tomlin, who maintains a perpetual smirk on her face throughout the movie, does not succeed in instilling any sense of personality into her role; the rest of the cast seem to make a concerted effort to stifle any semblance of character in their characters. The only exception in the otherwise lackluster cast is newcomer Diedrich Bader...
...light of publicity. Paul Reubens jettisoned his career as gooney kid Pee-wee Herman when he was caught masturbating in a Sarasota, Florida, theater. After Woody Allen jilted Mia Farrow for Farrow's adopted daughter, he found his reputation as a world-class filmmaker carrying the asterisk of a smirk...
...primal-nature movement ran a year in Chicago and has chugalugged onto off- Broadway. The show offers fans of the departing sitcom Cheers, wondering how to cope without their favorite palookas, a two-hour maintenance dose of Norm, the fat, idle, beer-guzzling oaf with the inexplicably likable stumblebum smirk...
...these; two of the recipients were subsequently shot, he says, and four got life sentences.) To impress the officials, Qiu Ju gives them fruit and buys an ill-fitting striped jacket that unfortunately makes her look even more like a hick chick from the sticks. All to wipe that smirk off the village chief's face -- and to save hers...
More typically, matters are not confronted directly. Antigay servicemen single out targets, spreading rumors behind their back, carving butt pirate and die faggot on their lockers and spraying their beds with sexual lubricant. To avoid becoming a target, gay men sometimes play along, trying to mask their pain. They smirk gamely at gay jokes and go to lengths to cloak their true identity. Some invent girlfriends or wives, or even date women. Blatant lies about sexual orientation, however, risk perjury charges if a homosexual comes under investigation. Most, therefore, simply disclose nothing about their personal life. "The result...