Word: brows
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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George Bush sits in the soft light of the Oval Office, tilted back in his chair, brow knitted, rimless glasses in his restless hands, then on his nose, then off again. He suddenly swivels, points a long forefinger at a stack of papers in the center of his neat desk. It is Amnesty International's report on Iraqi atrocities in Kuwait. He's just been asked about compromising with Saddam Hussein...
...really important stuff, like duckbills tending their offspring. His manner is casual and laconic, which fits with the scraggly beard, the sneakers and the bush hat. But when a volunteer presents some fossils he has gathered, Horner handles them attentively. Then he peers from under his domed brow, and through a veil of smoke rising from the cigarette at the corner of his mouth, he inquires, "What else did you find out there?" There is about him something of the disguised intensity of a gold prospector. He smokes each cigarette down to the filter...
There is no real acting, either. Moore's performance consists largely of tilting her pretty chin up and looking bewildered and tilting her chin up and looking weepy. Swayze knits his brow a lot. And Goldberg, well, she's Goldberg. She makes funny faces, complains frequently, and is warm-hearted and engaging. And completely out of place in a mystery thriller...
...florid tattoo on his right arm -- a premature badge of manhood that also serves as an animist charm to ward off evil. Sometimes Kyaw Lin is shaky and feverish because, like most of his comrades, he suffers from bouts of malaria. Nobody is there to wipe his brow or take his temperature; he just lies in his bunker until the fever subsides and he can return to fighting the Burmese...
Carrying out his final duties as Prime Minister, Modrow knitted his brow more deeply than usual and told friends he would leave politics. But two weeks ago, duty summoned, and he agreed to head his party's ticket in Sunday's elections, virtually guaranteeing him a seat in East Germany's first democratically elected parliament. As leader of a small opposition party, Modrow may finally find his place in Germany...