Word: smirking
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...camera, John Berger once famously said, is a man looking at a woman. Movie romance is certainly a snapshot of a beautiful woman suffering. The main function of Chow?played by Leung as a sensitive gigolo whose smirk can mature into a sigh?is to direct our glance to all the fabulous women in the cast. The camera, mainly manned by Christopher Doyle, prowls around the women like a lover in the first flush of passion. It captures and caresses the actresses' radiance: Lau's bold sensuality, Faye Wong's elfin resiliency, Gong Li's fragile hauteur. Zhang...
...have to sympathize with Rice for the badgering she underwent in her appearance before the 9/11 commission. During his questioning, commission member Richard Ben-Veniste simply was not prepared to give her room to answer. He appeared to be playing to the audience and the cameras. I hated the smirk on his face when the crowd unashamedly applauded his manners (or lack of them). Sajan H. Malik Karachi...
...Silicon Valley guys like to smirk, calling him the Wal-Mart of the tech world. But Michael Dell, 39, is having the last laugh. What started as a $1,000 investment, and was launched in his dorm room at the University of Texas, is today the world's No. 1 computer maker in market share, thanks to a relentless focus on selling direct to the consumer. First came desktops and notebooks, then servers and storage, and now printers and flat-screen TVs. The company racked up $41 billion in sales last year and wants to boost that to $80 billion...
Watching this schoolyard scuffle with a smirk plastered across his goateed face, taking a perpetually unsatisfying drag from his hand-rolled cigarette, is the intellectual film critic. To those removed from the academic world, this person doesn’t exist, but any student at all familiar with the inside of a university film studies department knows his kind very well. Subsisting on a rigid diet of Fassbinder and Brakhage, the only filmic pleasure he knows is found deep within his Criterion collection...
...application. The friend withheld the fact that she too was applying for the same internship, leading Jennifer to believe that her application was used as a springboard for ideas. “She is one of my best friends,” Jennifer says with a slight smirk. “I was happy she didn?...