The acting was generally considered excellent, with Zane being cited for injecting " unforgettable humanity and evil puckishness into his role " the " Times "'
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He relented after the woman _ a person one of his handlers said Woods knew well enough to be profane around in the name of puckishness _ threatened to repeat his response to the waiting reporters.
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As Tom, Jonathan Taylor Thomas uses all of the condensed TV-kid delivery he's perfected on " Home Improvement, " a puckishness that keeps him from wasting a moment onscreen.
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Throughout the morning, Megawati, whose passivity contrasts with Wahid's puckishness, showed no expression, busying herself with wiping her neck and her glasses with a small cloth and rattling a small fan beside her face.
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And Quaid's turn as the chameleonic barfly is his most confidently puckish in years, but when his character's secret is revealed, the confidence and puckishness vanish, because Carroll's screenplay has ceased giving him anything to do.
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As for Allen's other designated geniuses, W . C . Fields and Groucho and Harpo Marx, West is more daring than Fields, as smart as Groucho and has no more interest in Harpo's puckishness than she has in Chaplin's pathos or Keaton's stringent mournfulness.
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Salvo's brown-eyed, white-haired puckishness makes him almost as difficult to resist as his thick red wine _ " not too sweet, not too dry, 3 cases white seedless grapes, 7 cases Alicante grapes, that's my recipe that everybody love, " he says.
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In a moment of inspired puckishness, a sculpture of marching soldiers by a fellow Czech, Vladimir Janousek, was positioned so that it appeared to be marching from the nearby Soviet pavilion to the boot marks of " The River, " as if it were a representation of the Russian and Germany armies that had occupied his homeland for most of his life.
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Associated Press television critic Frazier Moore remarked, " Stewart, usually a very funny guy, displayed a lack of beginner's luck as first-time host . . . His usually impeccable blend of puckishness and self-effacement fell flat in the service of Oscar . " He also criticized the decision to play music over the winner's acceptance speeches calling it " distracting and obnoxious ."
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In an undated and unsigned review, " TV Guide " notes that the film has " the winsome charm of Hepburn, the elfin puckishness of Chevalier, a literate script by Wilder and Diamond, and an airy feeling that wafted the audience along, " but felt it was let down by Gary Cooper, who " was pushing 56 at the time and looking too long in the tooth to be playing opposite the gamine Hepburn . . . With little competition from the wooden Cooper, the picture is stolen by Chevalier's bravura turn ."
