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Even better is Brun's turn as Dr. Chausable; he employs an entirely different British accent to capture perfectly the character's well-meaning but provincial sobriety as well as his underlying lecherousness. And as society matron Aunt Augusta, Emma Laskin drawls each word with a terrifically contemptuous sneer; she may be the only actor on stage who can not only read a Wilde epigram but can squeeze a laugh out of it as well...

Author: By Glenn Slater, | Title: In Wild Earnest | 4/14/1989 | See Source »

...roommates are about as sympathetic to my plight as General Sherman was to the South. "What?" they sneer. "You have a problem with 'Back in Black' at high volume at 4:30 in the morning...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream... | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...Nazis and a plumbing-supply merchant with sidelines in piety and jealous rage lurk there, along with a mastermind whose ends may justify his means but not his perpetual sneer. Youth gangs, corrupt cops, drug smugglers and, yes, some late-model toilet bowls also have their places in a tale whose complexities would devour most actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beyond The Fringe | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

Indeed, the team's latest NFC championship is nothing to sneer at. But for a franchise that has found it increasingly hard to meet its own high standards of success, the season so far is only semi-super...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 49ers Aim For Super Results | 1/18/1989 | See Source »

...Aron Presley is not buried there. The book comes with a tape of a man who sounds like Elvis and offers Delphic hints of his postmortem life and times. If Brewer-Giorgio fails to convince skeptics, she has profitably tapped a rich vein of quasi-religious longing. Millions may sneer along with Doonesbury and David Letterman at news of Presley's sanctified status, but many believe it. A star may have died, but something is being born. Maybe the Church of Elvis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The King Is Dead - or Is He? | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

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