Word: sneered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SURELY no modern audience is often asked to expend the kind of mental effort that keeping up with The School for Scandal requires. The plot is spiderwebbed from the beginning: a "school" of conniving gossips with names like Benjamin Backbite. Lady Sneer-well, and Mr. Snake, whose greatest pleasure is to ruin the reputations of upright citizens through rumor. Lady Sneerwell (Shirley Wilber), it turns out, is also passing the time by angling for the heart of a young heir to-be-named Charles Surface (Stephen Rowe); her strategy is to connive with Charles's brother Joseph (Tony Shalhoub...
...once said that there are only five real themes in all of literature; The Lords of Discipline is slavishly based on one of the tried-and-true. Fans of the New Testament should recognize a lot of the action. There are good guys and bad guys. The bad guys sneer most of the time, and put razor blades in the sneakers of Pierce, the first Black cadet in the Institute's history. Will, the hero, talks a lot about saving the Black cadet from his tormentors because it's the "right" thing to do, turning the other cheek, and doing...
...fine acting cannot hide the fact that Brimstone and Teacle lacks the cardinal British virtue of propriety: it becomes incongruous and off-putting rather than truly thought-provoking. In the end, it's like watching a Sid Vicious sneer slowly curling the stiff upper lip under the black bowler hat of English tradition...
...psychotic stalker of Herzog's Aguirre, Woyzeck and Nosferatu, now a Kodachrome picture of the imperialist as jolly fantast. It is one of the many odd pleasures of Fitzcarraldo to watch Kinski's 80 or so teeth, which are usually forged into a vampire's carnivorous sneer, here forged into the semblance of a Teddy Roosevelt grin...
...spirit in general, when a dozen Ken and Barbie Dolls with "H's" on their chests are yipping, "Let's get ROWDEE?" Do we want to compete with the UMass color guard and baton twirlerettes? Doesn't anyone have any pride in final club snobbery anymore? In the Hahvahd sneer? In smoke-filled coffee houses...