Word: eyebrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...various moments to steal the show from Robeson. He portrays with evil genius the wicked shrewdness and the twisted mind that produces the tragedy of "Othello" by mastering the simple strength of the Moor. By a crook of the finger, a clearing of the throat, a lift of the eyebrow, Ferrer probes the depths of the villain's complicated character more thoroughly than could a less capable actor by an entire speech...
...Father. An Irishman, handsome as he is unmistakable, Father Finn rehearses his chorus in a polo shirt instead of a cassock, and can spur a choir boy to a Palestrinian high E with a flick of the eyebrow. Born 62 years ago in Boston, he became organist there at the Carmelite Monastery as a child. He began conducting Palestrina in Chicago's old St. Mary's Church in 1904, a year before he was ordained. "I was 25 years trying to find out how to conduct it," he says. In the meantime his Paulist Choristers became world famous...
...without lifting an eyebrow, driving a jeep with one hand, clutching a pistol with the other, while his aide blasted the jungle thickets with a machine gun. Alexander was not blamed for Dunkirk or Burma. In both theaters, he was in the position of a relief pitcher who enters a baseball game with his team ten runs behind...
Today the food is plain and most of the well-sprung limousines are up on blocks. Rouge and a touch of the eyebrow pencil help to keep the officers looking smart, but in their hearts they know that soon they will have to fight or run away. The Russians are over the Prut; the end of an era cannot...
...President paused, cocked an eyebrow at the reporters crowded around his desk. Some of you people, he interpolated, are wandering around asking bellhops if we have a foreign policy. Well, we have. Some of you don't seem to know it, but we actually have and it's right here...