Word: winked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every presidential election in this century except one was won by the Democrat or Republican whose last name contained more of the letters FROST WINK JUICE than his opponent...
...fall of the rebel angels at cosmic distance, as a golden snowfall that fills the firmament. After Pandemonium (the house of all demons) is created by magic, its central room becomes as black as night, or the inside of Satan's skull, and myriad rows of attendant devils wink like stars. Satan and his dark disciples fly toward the high gate of hell bound for the corruption of mankind. They look, Collier writes, "no bigger than a flight of hornets in the Dome of the Pantheon...
Even his much-publicized arrogance had its engaging aspect. He dropped names so often that floors threatened to collapse under their collective weight, but always with a troll-like wink that undermined the gravity of his statements and reduced them almost to an acknowledged self-parody. He bandied about words like power, influence, hiring and firing, always with himself on the business end of the proposittion, yet his flamboyant style seemed to belie the cold calculation of his rhetoric...
...victory over Jill Robertson, Steiner presented the Radcliffe team with a mammoth bouquet of roses, a la Riggs. Equally chivalrous and chauvinistic, Steiner gave away three games to Robertson, and at one point returned her way-out-of-bounds shot at set-point with a wink...
This is the kind of material that a good director can give us in the wink of a panning camera's eye. Fred Zinnemann, happily shifting down from the upper-middlebrow range of A Man for All Seasons and Behold a Pale Horse, is a good director. A onetime film editor, he is a master of the short cuts that are the shortcut to supplying lots of information effortlessly. He is also a master of camera placement, a man who can give us the essence of a scene in one elegant, yet self-effacing setup. As a result, what...