Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spaghetti westerns to this, his fifth film as Dirty Harry Callahan, Eastwood has built a durable celebrity on his unique brand of Zen surliness. By now his character need hardly cock an eyebrow, let alone a trigger, to send supervillains hurtling to their deaths. "Go ahead, punks," he might snarl as a new legion of psychopaths butts up against his belligerence. "Make my career...
...classes instead of the bathrooms now--the people who turn in papers a week before they're due, and who not only do optional problem sets, but review them before exams. These people are also starting to seriously grate on my otherwise genial personality, causing me to snarl at puppydogs and toddlers...
This year's no exception. Blackstone's Barb Dwyer, with Wicked-Wanda breasts and sinister snarl, is a formidable presence. Jason Tomarken, as Denuar, knows he's playing a stock character and plays with enthusiasn. But Michael Starr, as the billionaire's sixth wife, Libby Doe, turns in a-dare I say sensual?-rendition that few performers could manage. Although my only qualification to judge the performers is a stint covering the Theater of the Absurd that is Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Dianne Ferratwinkie (Maurice "Mo" Rocca) is the clear stand-out among Denuar's daughters. Rocca...
WASHINGTON--The Soviet Union has given the United States missile information required to close a nuclear arms control treaty, a high ranking U.S. official said yesterday, clearing up a last-minute snarl as the two sides prepare to sign the accord...
...Vanity Fair, James Wolcott wrote an almost scholarly piece on the chroniclers of the young and wasted, pronouncing them "too numb to feel, to cool to care...Current fiction is festooned with their razor cuts and insignia. Listen closely and the lite-FM melodies of Ann Beattie snarl into a more hostile noise...