Word: warmth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...without other facial movements, particularly around the eyes, smiles would not really mean what they seem to. For appropriate warmth, the upper smile is usually enhanced by slight changes around the outer corners of the eyes. Even the broad smile is not always an entirely convincing expression of surprise or pleasure unless it is accompanied by an elevation of the eyebrows, or what the researchers call a "raise." Other emotional expressions also depend on a delicate use of the eye area. In a sad frown, the eyebrows will ordinarily be drawn down at the outer ends. By contrast, they will...
...Then, he explains, "I got to a point where objects didn't mean anything any more." Humphrey's canvases of 1964 and 1965 were cold-gray with narrow colored borders. Slowly softer and more vibrant colors began to glow in his works. Humphrey says that the added warmth of his latest pictures probably derives from the arrival, two and a half years ago, of a daughter on whom he dotes...
...fight and dance scenes, in Ford show group activity in which each person's behavior is laid down by tradition. A fight scene in The Searchers (1956), for example, gives participants and spectators secure roles. The tension generated when one man picks up a stick of wood turns into warmth and humor when he sets it as a boundary marker. No such security comes from the sequence in How Green: Ford cuts from one face to another, showing his characters straining to create song as if for the first time. All the film's shots of masses of men have...
...tables are decorated with well-worn pewter, the five public dining rooms provide the kind of labyrinthine privacy that politicians prefer, and the two private rooms are perfect for In-timpolitik. Presiding over all is Owner-Hostess Ria Alzen, a 55-year-old divorcee of quick wit and ready warmth. Because of her, the restaurant is usually referred to merely as Ria's, and the establishment is as well known as the Palais Schaumburg...
...beer in the back room and immediately began to do a brisk business. Soon there were too many tippling collegians. They spilled out of the jammed bar and into the windy 40° cold of the North Dakota night. Bored and beery, they began looking for excitement-and warmth. Gradually, what began as a springtime put-on turned into a night of terror...