Word: smirking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...with one night at a party and months later she will remember the details of the conversation. She cares about what you say and who you are. Or, you might know Vicky’s smile from the pages of “Roving Reporter” where her smirk brags that she has the scoop, the whole scoop and nothing but the scoop. And you don’t. You may be a good friend of Vicky’s, in which case you are most probably gay, Jewish and a ManRay frequenter. Friend Vicky surprises you with...
...content of her fictional works and her poetry, but how she made the leap between the football field and the Booker Prize was left largely undisclosed. She curtailed her story at the publication of her first novel, and finished her speech without instructions, only a warning and a smirk: “Beware…it’s a daunting, shark-filled lagoon out there.” Margaret Atwood knows the end of the story, but she’s not telling...
...like Dirty Harry channeling Winston Churchill--but his vow to take bin Laden "dead or alive" had an appealing clarity. And last week an impromptu Bush put the war in perspective after introducing the Nigerian President in the Rose Garden. Squinting into the sun, which eliminates any temptation to smirk or bite his lip, Bush promised that "we're on the hunt" and we're "going to chase them down," then advised impatient Americans to get over their need for "instant gratification...
...making the audience hate her Nurse Ratched. With every condescending raise of the eyebrow, the viewer feels more and more like attacking her, just as McMurphy does. Christopher R. Starr ’03 makes a believably arrogant and influential McMurphy. His performance is enhanced by the mischievously playful smirk that never leaves his face. As Chief Bromden, Yuming Zou ’02 fulfills the role’s stoic requirements. Robert A. Hodgson ’05 plays a wonderfully vulnerable Billy Bibbit: He stutters like...
...ballads (“Drive You Home” and “So Like a Rose”). Certainly, Beautiful Garbage wanders stylistically at times compared to the Garbage’s previous work, but the band nevertheless show they can update their sound without sacrificing their trademark smirk...