He ran as he always ran out home runs — hurriedly, unsmiling, head down, as if our praise were a storm of rain to get out of.
He walked into his postgame news conference unsmiling, his head down.
On 125th and St. Nicholas Avenue, just outside the A train stop, was one of those wig shops with the feel of an art installation: 90 numbered, unsmiling female mannequin heads, some gazing east, others west.
In the panels depicting sex acts, the women tend to look lovely, while Mr. Brown — with his tight, unsmiling mouth; bald head; and long, thin body — resembles a praying mantis with testicles.
With his buffalo-nickel head; craggy, unsmiling face; stringy hair; and superhuman facility as a knife thrower, Mr. Trejo offers an amusing inside-out caricature of the Hollywood stereotype of a Latin American drug cartel's sinister enforcer who speaks in growled sound bites ("Machete don't text").
The after-party was held, aptly, at the Harvard Club on West 44th Street, a wood-paneled bastion of Ivy League privilege, festooned with animal heads and portraits of unsmiling elders.
Someone began whistling the theme song to the film "The Godfather" before doors at the side of the room swung open and an unsmiling Colonel Qaddafi strode in, his head held high at an imperious angle.
Fanning was a year younger, an unsmiling boy from Massachusetts who shaved his head against the curled, or "nappy", hair that had earned him his nickname.
His series of 20 self close-ups (1992-1998) in locations ranging from Manhattan to Australia to his native country, each shot head-on with the same unsmiling expression, succeeds in concealing his persona rather than revealing it, like those serial Andy Warhol celebrity portraits.
A reporter later offered the Quinlans a hundred thousand dollars for a photograph of their daughter in her hospital bed, but they refused, which is why the iconic image of Karen Ann Quinlan is her high-school yearbook picture, a head shot of a pale and unsmiling eighteen-year-old with long dark hair.
