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rictus [′rik·təs] (vertebrate zoology) The mouth aperture in birds. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| With rictus smiles and humping hips, Koresh's dancers broadcast a knife-sharp sexiness as they moved through a dizzying range: from folk-dance parody through vacant, clubby frenzy to a kind of Hasidic ecstasy, all danced to the sinuous, Levantine sounds of Romany music. There is a moment during a honeymoon visit to Kinsey's dreadful parents when the young professor is laughing with his wife about his father's idiocies, and suddenly Neeson turns his laugh into a rictus of pain. Tannis Burnett as Alice is a hoot as her groaner laugh lines inspire in every family member a dread-induced rictus and the rote, ``Oh, Alice |
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