Word: squinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Governor in neighboring states at the same time. Both are proud of their Western backgrounds. Reagan likes the way Laxalt strides through Washington in his cowboy boots. They get along so well, notes a Laxalt aide, because they "share a belief in the great, growing, ebullient American West. They squint when they look into the distance." Ever since they consulted as Governors on mutual problems of their states, they have been good friends as well as political allies. Says Laxalt about Reagan: "I consider him almost to be a big brother. Our relationship transcends politics. I have the luxury...
...only did the actor have to master a vocabulary of malapropisms far more complex than the nano-nanos of Mork from Ork. He had to cavort under the fierce Malta sun, wearing thick rubber arm pads to simulate the cartoon sailor's anvil forearms. He had to squint perpetually out of his left eye, speak in what he describes as a Liquid Wrench voice and consume untold quantities of canned spinach. Shelley Duvall's role as Olive Oyl was not much easier. "I had shin splints for weeks from those size-14, quintuple-A boots," she groans...
...Lawrence said extravagantly, "is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer." In 19th century portrayals, Uncle Sam has a certain look in his eye that had disappeared by the time of the famous World War I I WANT YOU recruiting poster. The look is conniving, raw and whip-mean, the squint-shrewd eye of a man with a rope who is about a week's ride from the nearest law court...
...have to squint hard to find inconsistencies like these, though, and aurally if not physically the music works. More curious and ironic is the presence onstage of Robert Brustein, ART's director and a philosopher of the theater in his own right, as Theseus, that unrepentant skeptic with no faith in drama or poetry. This, after all, is the character who delivers the famous speech lumping lovers, poets and madmen together as creatures of imagination, flighty and deluded...
...bought his bagels. I would like to try tightrope walking, said Rick as they watched the great whoever tiptoe through the air. But I would not like to try everything. Sammy contemplated the weight lifters in their pen. He eyed the girls, their tiny bathing suits disappearing in his squint. Another sunset, he thought...