Word: smirking
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...gave up on the original program. George professes to believe that in Paris 7000 there is "more of the real me," which is to say the patina beneath the suntan of a man who after eleven years in acting still has only two expressions-a saturnine scowl and a smirk...
...what purpose? More to come of this. First however, a DIGRESSION ON IRONY, on the striking--or fortuitous--juxtapositions which brings the easy laugh or the satisfied and satisfying smirk, on the most promiscuously overtaxed on present literary and theatrical modes. There is no smidgen of irony in this production of Jesus, though certain of its devices, described here outside their stage context, will inevitably suggest the reverse. The hundreds of vivid and contemporary visual references with which Mr. Mayer has leavened this text--derived exclusively (excepting the interpolated songs) from the King James Version, Gospels and Apocrypha...
...swiftly degenerates into a bus of fools, overpopulated with drooling Babbitts and hatchet-faced moms. Humor centers around the foreign John with its mysterious bidet and its waxy toilet paper. A sleazy double-entendre occasionally surfaces, as when the tour guide observes that the cockney word for sausages is (smirk) bangers...
...waved confidently, then to our amazement there was a huge spark. Two hours later when the police brought his body down his metal rimmed glasses were molten slabs fused to his face. They made us see it. All that I remember distinctly of the incident in the absurd smirk on his face which was the only visible expression on his horribly charred body...
...budget public TV series, the wine was faked with a mixture of water and Gravy Master. Graham guzzles the real stuff from a goblet throughout the program (in seeming violation of Article 3, Section 17 of the Broadcasters' Code). His other constant prop is an arch smirk. He prances onto the kitchen set the way Sugar Ray Robinson used to approach the ring, then pirouettes so that the tittering ladies in the studio audience can admire his costume du jour. He has 27 of them-black tie for a filet steak Washington, for example, and a kangaroo-skin bush...