Word: smirks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intent of Artzybasheff to convey the image of a man with a sick mind, he has succeeded admirably. The smirk, the dead color, the vacant eyes-he has painted a most penetrating portrait of Lee Oswald...
...mighty schlemiels from little schlepps grow. Then there was Breathless! Belmondo played an archetypal anomie only to have Jean Seberg rat to the cops and leave him dying. Who but Belmondo could die with a smirk...
...turn things around and become, quite actually, his master's master. Bogarde acts so unassumingly that at times the part seems to be playing itself, but afterward, a viewer realizes that he has seen the whole man in Bogarde's face: deception, cruelty, cunning, cynicism, the smirk of testing self-assertion, the pustular hurt of the man who feels that his rights exceed his definable estate, the essential weakness of the citizen slave...
...been out for a while, Beckwith quit hamming around, sat in tense silence until-22 hours after they had been handed the case for a verdict-the jurors returned to say that they could not agree. Circuit Judge Leon Hendrick declared a mistrial, and Beckwith, with nary a smirk nor a smile, got up and went back to his cell...
...apes. But when Nova is put in the cell opposite with another strapping human male, he finds himself clawing at the bars like an animal. The apes, reassured by this return to "human" behavior, restore Nova to him. "I must now admit," Mérou then relates with a smirk, "that I adapted myself with remarkable ease to the conditions of life in my cage...