Once upon a time Lovett rested his narrow eye on the wide world of Texan society, landscape and fauna, and coaxed out of those things surreal lament.
While these colleagues are busy threading the narrow eyes of constitutional legal needles, we're preparing to re-don our straight faces and straitjackets.
Though generous with surfing sequences -- in which the camera seems to glide through the narrowing eye of a curling, breaking wave and then to turn underwater somersaults during the wipeout that follows -- "Blue Crush" does have a land-based plot of sorts.
It is only through the narrowed eyes of adulthood that I can see this Pygmalion for what he really was.
Elisabeth Waterston is a long, thin stem of a girl, 5 feet 11 inches tall, with the slightly narrowed eyes of her famous father, the actor Sam Waterston.
Even when the cult members get some free play of their own, in the shape of an orgy, what stays with you is the narrowed eyes of Patrick, as he watches from the foot of the stairs, pulling invisible strings.
She often pointed a finger at me as if I were an orphan, and she withdrew her affection from me very quickly, replacing it with the narrowed eyes of suspicion and the hard gaze of admonition.
Meanwhile, there's no discernible flicker behind the narrowed eyes of Scott (son of Clint) Eastwood's drill sergeant, Rinko Kikuchi's return as fan favourite Mako Mori amounts to an inert cameo, and Charlie Day and Burn Gorman's mad professor double act is markedly less fun second time around.
Here's Chagrin, the supervillain's evil henchman (think Oddjob but with a different hat): "He had yellowish skin, narrow eyes with the epicanthic lids of the Orient, and flat, inert features.
