Word: sullens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mixture of honesty and defiance. "If a person stands in front of you," he points out, "with his hands in his pockets and his shirt open, someone can stick a knife in his stomach." Thanks to Leslie's technical mas tery, the painting captures both his sullen antagonism toward the world and, at the same time, makes him look as innocent and as vulnerable as any of Pearlstein's coldly viewed nudes...
Wilson was clearly shaken by the challenge, but in a head-cracking emergency Cabinet meeting, he managed to force his will. He then assured Com mons, while Brown sat in a sullen, cross-armed slouch, that he had backing "as a whole" against the arms sales. The rumors continued that Brown, whose rambunctious social behavior has never seemed to bother Wilson, was not long for the Cabinet, even though such a move would split the party down the middle. Wilson's political stock also waned when he prearranged parliamentary support for continuing the ban-the first time in recent...
...visitor, the panorama and the sullen concrete gobs have a different message and raise different questions. They testify above all to the vitality and persistence of the Israelis...
Thus it was that the group's chief lyricist, John Lennon, began tuning in on U.S. Folk Singer Bob Dylan (The Times They Are A-Changin'); it wasn't Dylan's sullen anger about life that Lennon found appealing so much as the striving to "tell it like it is." Gradually, the Beatles' work began to tell it too. Their 1965 song, Nowhere Man ("Doesn't have a point of view, knows not where he's going to") asked: "Isn't he a bit like you and me?" Last year...
...early appearances on TV, she inevitably played stereotypes-"suicidal or pregnant" teen-agers-yet fired them with a sullen hostility reminiscent of Kim Stanley. She was equally skilled in comedy in the style of the early Jean Arthur or Judy Holliday...