Word: mien
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Only two characters come close to achieving that timelessness and universality which make a character endure. Ben Evett, who plays the role of Vindice with puckish bravado, and Peter Hansen, the Duke's bastard son of conniving mien, carry the play through its weaker moments. When Vindice again draws forth Gloriana's skull--this time as a weapon to poison the Duke, who unsuspecting that she is only a "shell of death" will try to steal a kiss from her in a dark corridor--he handles the scene with a deft blend of madness and humor that make the murder...
...less imposing in heavy blue jeans, black boots and a long-sleeved flannel shirt. He had been working on his memoirs since before dawn, he said. As he sat in an easy chair, smiling warmly, he spoke with that familiar instructive manner, still wary and somehow aloof, his gentle mien always at odds with the ambition and defiance that surely cooked inside him. He had not mellowed much...
...characters come onstage wearing labels but seldom baring lives. The personal relationships are uninvolving since they never seem more than cocktail-party deep, and Julia is a cotton-candy Casanova. Doleful of mien, downcast of eye, Guide's put-upon wife (Karen Akers) sits with cool rigidity on her cube for what seems like hours. Only when she abandons Guido with a torchy kiss-off number, Be On Your Own, does her pent-up rage kindle some semblance of warmth...
...understatement is the cornerstone of the Ely style. In person and in writing, his is dry, slightly cynical humor that allows him to stray just so far from the serious mien he adopts toward his subjects. He appears reluctant to discuss his personal life, but eager to hold forth on his theories, straightforwardly but not pompously. Clarity, too, seems an Ely hallmark--even an analysis as complex as that of Democracy and Distant comes across clearly and colorfully in his hands, as Ely's occasional asides temper the book's serious analysis...
When Ricardo Montalban, 61, the courtly Mr. Roarke of TV's Fantasy Island, goes home and hangs up his impeccably pressed white suit, what does a man who caters to dreams change into? Perhaps his own fantasy is to doff his fastidious mien, let his hair sprout, and lounge around in the tattered haute couture of an intergalactic hitchhiker? In Paramount's $10 million space epic Star Trek II, Montalban does just that. He plays the diabolic Khan, a villainous android who escapes exile on a nightmarish planet but not the embraces of two comely space maidens...