Word: winking
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...Firstborn is a lifeless failure, it is less that Fry had not yet acquired a rhetoric than that he had misapplied it. His literary conceits, his verbal arabesques suffocate anything truly alive. Half don, half dandy, Fry was to find himself in mannerism rather than substance, in the mocking wink rather than the observing eye. Despite Katharine Cornell's regal efforts as Pharaoh's sister, or trumpet-voiced Anthony Quayle's as Moses, the Egypt of The Firstborn is mummified. Only Boris Aronson's sets evoke something once living and still large...
...himself from a tiddlywinks joust to which he had been challenged by the Cambridge University team. He said with regret that he would have liked to lead his team, the Goons, but "unfortunately, while practicing secretly, I pulled an important muscle in the second or tiddly joint of my winking finger. Wink up. fiddle the game, and may the Goon side...
...first time they had the ball, halfback Larry Repsher dashed 60 yards for the first touchdown. Frank Crossons scored two and Wink Pescosolido one. Coach Lamar started the second string in the second half, since the Yardlings were leading 21-0 at that point...
...Fortunately, there is controversy. When two of the nation's most admired painters can hold and express views as diametrically opposed as those of Mark Tobey and Andrew Wyeth, a healthy state of tension exists. "Multiple space bounded by white lines," Abstractionist Tobey tells the world without a wink, "symbolizes higher states of consciousness." And Realist Wyeth replies: "What the subject means is the most important thing...
...Black and Tan ordeal of rebellion "troubles" in 1921, a horde of citizens, ostensibly thumbing their beads, conspire to rescue a Condemned young revolutionary from his British jailers. Wearing saucy high heels under their false habits, two fake nuns thoroughly enjoy their patriotic lark at the death cell, wink, exchange secret smiles and repress girlish giggles while a fine broth of a boy barely escapes the noose...