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Humphrey Bogart was a brilliant smoker. He taught generations how to hold a cigarette, how to inhale, how to squint through the smoke. But as a kisser, Bogart was an awful example. His mouth addressed a woman's lips with the quivering nibble of a horse closing in on an apple. Better to study, say, the suave carnality of Gary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in Notorious...
Movie heroes come in a variety of styles and moods. They can offer a brilliant smile (Errol Flynn) or a poignant wince (James Dean), a charismatic squint (Steve McQueen) or an implacable Mount Rushmore stare (John Wayne). But the most venerated always come in one state: dead. Here are four deceased icons, and five DVD memorials, that actually justify the hype...
...offices at 14 Plympton Street offer an atmosphere that is brutally stifling—creatively, respiratorially—and yet, deliriously enticing. Every year, fresh-faced first-years glide like gazelles up the four steps to that big red door, their eyes narrowed into a determined squint, their lips locked in straight lines with curving corners that project the joy of the saboteur. “Today I will hold someone accountable,” they think. “Today I will earn a victory for the common...
When she took me to Yankee games in high school, she brought her paperwork. She’d squint at the field and ask where Derek Jeter was. I’d point, she’d holler out a “Let’s go, Jeter!” and return to her work. I don’t think she could even tell you what position he played, but she knew he was my favorite. Love is about making sacrifices for people you care about...
...where the other artists dwell. Here Marcus Lyall's video Slow Service, 2003, is essential viewing. Filmed at 1,000 frames a second then played back in excruciating slow motion, a succession of sitters have food thrown in their face - custard, pasta, tomato sauce - offering but a hand or squint in self-defence. Audiences better get used to it. "2004" is a visual pie fight...