Word: squinting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beacon of the school system," he says) and then scornfully branding him a "capon," Weinstein does manage to infuse the play with whatever sense of menace it finally conveys. Emily Apter is also fine in the stereotypical part of the teasing ingenue, and Lorenzo Mariano is sufficiently otherworldly as Squint, the philosophy student...
...almost no advance publicity, is sneaking into the Jazz Workshop this week. Jones is, quite simply, the best jazz drummer in the world. He's at his best in a small place; when he plays he screws an omnipresent cigarette into his mouth, contorts his face into an impossible squint to keep the smoke out of his eyes, nods his head to unseen rhythms and plays terriffic rapid-fire solos. A real virtuoso...
...askew. His third-day shirt has ring-around-the-collar. His thick, wavy clump of dark hair overhangs eyes screwed tight in a lopsided squint, a brow that is permanently furrowed and a leathery puss smudged with unshavable stubble. With stocky shoulders hunched forward at a 45° angle, he looks like an ambulatory cypress stump in baggy brown pants. And the raincoat. The raincoat is an oversized, unhung affair in the last stages of decomposition, scarred and seasoned with the grease of a thousand fingers, its hems frayed and stringy, its pockets attached more by habit than by thread...
Evert's concentration borders on the mesmeric. Scrunching her nose and squinting her hazel eyes, she assumes a trancelike expression that rarely bespeaks the slightest emotion. Rivals have described her intensity as "almost eerie," her slit-eyed squint as "snake-like." Julie Heldman claims that Evert's poise is so great that she does not seem to sweat, much less disturb a strand of her honey brown hair. "I have never seen Chris look disheveled," says Julie, "or even pleasantly rumpled...
...must work fast. In the morning the women smile; they age with the day. Every line deepens until, when a woman goes home, she looks and feels ten years older. In well-lit factories eyes squint and blur. The glaring electric light neutralizes everything...