Word: facially
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...only flaw was the chorus. Most of them simply were not very good dancers. And their facial expressions were ludicrous. Lack of blank expressions, I am told, is one of the factors that distinguish jazz dancing from modern dancing. In The Comedy, facial expression was ably used as a means of communication. But in an American in Paris the pasted on smiles of most of the dancers made them look like a night club chorus line. The chorus was ably used, however, in the travel and farewell scenes, where they convincingly represented inanimate objects, like trains and waves...
Click! went Leutze, a German-born artist, who actually executed the painting in Dusseldorf, using all the American tourists he could find in town for their facial characteristics. In the Napoleonic tradition of Baron Gros and Gericault, disorder and confusion are hardly apparent. The balanced composition centers around a middle-ground bridge built by the unrealistic posture of Washington's war horse. The dog, which shares the foreground pool of water with parched troops, helps to tranquilize the hustle of hoofs...
...minor players seem to flourish within the constraints. The cast was dressed entirely in black, all the men in pants and turtleneck jerseys. Perhaps because of this they concentrated on verbal and facial characterizations. Confined behind their reading stands, they leaned on them, stood erect, or turned away as the situation demanded. It was nowhere so mechanical as it may sound. Within this small vocabulary of movements, none was ever...
...mouth wambles in a wild Watutsi, then it gapes wide in a silent scream. All at once his eyebrows make a break for his brainpan, the tendons of his neck bulge in sudden constriction. Apoplexy? Withdrawal pains? Hangover? Not at all. Only a commuting executive giving himself his morning facial. Back home, blessedly unobserved, his wife is doing the same thing at the bathroom mirror...
Nurse Patterson's idea, to tighten and tone up physiognomies suffering from middle-age sag, is presented in Facial Isometrics. The $1 paperback is illustrated by the faces of a male and a female model who both look as if unspeakable tortures were being performed on their lower extremities. No wonder. The author's instructions urge practitioners...