As smiles go, it's more rictus grin than welcoming sparkle.
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And it was the skeleton Death, rictus grin and scythe.
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Watch a time lapse of the Joker's ridiculous rictus taking shape.
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The flailing limbs, the snobby rictus of disgust and self-delight.
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" Greg's face is a rictus of horror and disgust: "Which, the cum?
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We have bitten our lips, slapped on rictus grins, kept buggering on.
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Prince's expression — a rictus of embarrassment, confusion and guilt — belongs in a gallery.
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His face remained as it had been before: a rictus of pain and pale, deep bewilderment.
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A waitress overheard him and nodded, but her blank smile — a rictus of nonrevelation — never wavered.
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Watching the way photography froze many of their faces into a rictus of rage was chilling.
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Wood obliged graciously, with a recognizable movie-star rictus that appeared throughout the night, mostly for various strangers' smartphones.
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Jones learned later that the production had created masks that froze the character's faces in a petrifying rictus grin.
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The producers scan both of their bodies to create photorealistic 3D avatars, including molded faces plastered with rictus grins.
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There may only be 13 episodes left of Game of Thrones, but Foxtel has 'em in its rictus grip.
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Sanders defended single-payer health care, Klobuchar defended the middle ground, and Graham and Cassidy lied through rictus grins.
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PARELES The rictus ran heavy throughout "Nobody But You" by the real-life couple Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani.
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What turned the image truly infectious was the tilt of her head into her body, the rictus of hauteur.
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But it was kind of fun to watch them grit their teeth in two rictus grins and struggle to try.
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Nogal slipped and fell to the ice, his face of rictus of agony as he spun on his rear end.
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The Amazon Twitter accounts sound strange because they're shills and it's hard to say anything worthwhile through a rictus grin.
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To Aurelia were addressed odd letters, written with a rictus of brittle cheer, offered as proof of health, happiness and sanity.
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They are all caricatures — even the black man who is being lynched — his face a rictus of pain and fear and agony.
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You'll understand why I am blurred and enduring 'Smiling-rictus' syndrome after meeting all these folk at the Academy Awards Nominees lunch today!!!
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A graphite drawing from 1979, the exhibition's namesake, echoes this later portrait by featuring another figure whose face is a rictus of terror.
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A billionaire superman with a rictus grin, striding straight past human drones, tethered to machines and blinded to reality by blinking plastic masks.
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" Awkwardly positioned at the side of the stage and sporting a rictus grin, Dash boomed: "I cannot wait to help my people out.
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"I'm the only candidate who does what everyone talks about," he tells reporters after his speech, his omnipresent smile hardening into a rictus.
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Doocy, who has hosted "Fox & Friends" since its inception, in 1998, is the show's jovial, distant dad, greeting all comers with a bemused rictus.
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It is particularly not fitting for an demigod like Bartolo Colon, a man who deserves more than a rictus grin and a constantly bobbing head.
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There is certainly something extreme about the serried carcasses, blackened by blow torches to burn off the fur, the faces charred in a rictus grin.
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Perhaps it was the décor—framed black-and-white pictures, cheeky signs urging patrons to drink more, a leopard mask fixed in a rictus grin.
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But Valenti short-sells her peers when she suggests humor is a pandering concession or a rictus grin women must wear to mask their pain.
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In one, Burrell has his arm around Dobson—shirtsleeves rolled up and rictus grin on his face—bearing the jaunty aspect of a quiz show presenter.
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In his 1979 piece "Triangle — Stone/Cloth," which leads off the exhibition, a fist-size rock distends a white banner into a triangular rictus of billows.
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Honestly, Mandy's open-mouth rictus initially is worth the price of admission alone, but we're going to give them both credit for the rest of their performance.
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Later investigators would learn that Donovan had dressed like Jeff during the murder, even slashing his mouth with a small blade in an impression of Jeff's rictus.
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The day may also include some naughty cupcakes and an aerobic attempt to blow out some candles while still keeping the mouth closed in a rictus pout.
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His smile when he poses with voters is a rictus, he ducks fund-raising calls, and he lacks patience for the backroom hugger-mugger required to pass legislation.
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A picture tells a thousand words: In one photograph that has been doing the rounds in recent weeks, Epstein smiles genuinely at Larry Summers, who is wearing his trademark rictus.
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Did the tweet herald a new, Apple-developed two-way neural interface that feeds users pleasant imagery until their mouths are contorted into painful rictus grins, a caricature of genuine human joy?
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The more employees are obliged to fix their faces with a rictus smile or express joy at a customer's choice of shoes, the more likely they are to suffer problems of burnout.
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By the end of each, he's worked himself into a frenzy over whoever his next opponent is, practically frothing at the mouth while his red face turns into a rictus of physical anger.
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Despite being unconventionally asymmetrical, its dial is surprisingly legible, showing day, date and leap year in three subdials, and the month in an aperture that breaks across the dial like a rictus grin.
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It isn't easy to be a lightning rod, I thought on the way out, as publicists with faces frozen in rictus grins did their best to usher showgoers past another anti-fur demonstration.
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Then there was the summer that the video for "Black Hole Sun" was ubiquitous; those distended faces and rictus smiles—and that gasping fish on the cutting board—constitute the very iconography of puberty.
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Pops of pink may soothe my raging soul as a quiet rebellion, but it won't erase the cultural attitudes driving me to muffle my screams of frustration into a rictus smile that passes for polite.
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And just in case you didn't get what was going here, the camera then pans upwards, to show a mask on the wall, featuring a look that is part wracked smile, part mid-orgasm rictus.
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Phoenix lost an unhealthy amount of weight for the role; his ribs all but poke through a loose-skinned torso, which he holds at unnatural angles so that he seems permanently contorted, a full-body rictus.
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With visual austerity and not an ounce of sentimentality, Chukwu transforms a character study into an indictment of institutionalized murder, the horror of which is made harrowingly palpable as Bernadine's face becomes a rictus of pain.
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Netanyahu's face, as you can see in the above screenshot, froze in a rictus of uncomfortable horror: Really confusing moment here where Trump stops the press from being ushered out of his photo spray with PM Netanyahu.
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She kills her many victims by forcing them to commit suicide for fear of her appearance, or — when she does appear — by simply frightening them to death, whereupon their faces are contorted into a rictus grin of terror.
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It isn't easy to be a lightning rod, I reflected on the way out, as publicists with their faces frozen in rictus grins did their best to usher showgoers past one of the several aggressive anti-fur demonstrations.
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From H1N1 to supermarket carnations and the petrified rictus of a lobster ("like a terrible crack / in a wall something worse is coming through"), these poems are interested in everything, possessing a capaciousness that, paradoxically, requires tight control.
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It's unclear in Euripides and it's unclear here, though when Pentheus reappears in a wig and a dress (that part is in Euripides, too), Mr. Berryman has the rictus smile and rolling eyes of someone roofied by a god.
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Those posters in the hallways with their rictus-grin adages conjure an even more disturbing parallel, one that King will allude to repeatedly in "The Institute": the slogan "Work Will Set You Free," mounted over the gates of Auschwitz.
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" In a stroke of only minor overstatement, Carroll ended every spot by pushing his arms together toward the camera as if surrendering to handcuffs, tightening his face in an electrocuted rictus, and screaming that Crazy Eddie's prices were "insane.
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But the effect is perhaps most pronounced back on Air Force One, when Johnson is sworn in, right hand upraised, the left resting on the bible, while Jackie stands right beside him, covered in blood, her face a rictus of shock and grief.
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Elsewhere, his stances are far from conservative: take, for example, his premise that the "uniform-industrial complex" may be proliferating to death, or an ESPN column on Cleveland fans leaving stitch-ringed spaces on their Indians gear after removing the team's rictus-grinned racist caricature.
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A billionaire superman with a rictus grin, striding straight past human drones, tethered to machines and blinded to reality... LG's G103 was only introduced yesterday, but I'm already convinced it is the most polished and complete smartphone that the Korean company has yet built.
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Instead, often clad in white tie and tails, he capers about more in the manner of Fred Astaire, although his macabre aspect — black eyebrows etched above his own, an eerie rictus spreading from ear to ear — recalls more the M.C. from "Cabaret" than anything else.
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Where Mr. Peña Nieto was polished, with television-ready good looks and sleek suits, Mr. López Obrador is rumpled, his face often bent in a rictus of annoyance, like a guy who just walked in off the street and isn't having a great day.
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Buckley stands in front of a crumpled American flag, smiling a crazy rictus-grin, his right hand seeming to pinch at the air; it is the best image of the most important and one of the most relentlessly flippant conservative journalists of the 20th century.
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"Feud" is Crawford's tragedy, and, by the final episodes, when she's trashing her prospects in a mad quest to punish her co-star, Lange finds something wriggling and alive inside Crawford's hunger to be seen, her lipsticked rictus as amused as it is seductive.
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When we get an extended closeup of a drunken Hal dancing in drag, there's no joy anywhere in the frame: Chalamet molds his face into a skull with a rictus grin, wine staining his teeth and the hair from a mopey scarecrow wig straggling into his eyes.
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Donovan had become enamored of "Jeff" and dressed the part for Heidi's murder, saying he was driven to wear black clothing to look like "Jeff" and to take a small blade to slash the sides of his mouth, extending it into an impression of the character's rictus.
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Of the many magic tricks that Get Out pulls off, the most impressive one is how it turns the smiling face of a friendly white person—who's just here to help, who happily voted for Barack Obama twice—into a rictus grin as terrifying as a Michael Myers mask.
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" I reread a section of one of her books and could feel my facial muscles forming a rictus when I got to certain passages, like the one in which she called women "master deniers" and conceded that people who had suffered domestic abuse were victims but also "dopes.
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It clenches into a furious rictus, or gathers itself into three befuddled folds as his brows jolt upward, or, at moments of deepest disgust, smooths out entirely, into a kind of placid pre-irritation, like a calm body of water, at the bottom of which there is a mine, ready to detonate.
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To prove her natural ability to cheer up just about anyone, Clarke spends the first 15 minutes of the movie wearing a rictus grin so chipper that as she nannies her way into the life of Claflin's angry quadriplegic, one wonders if she's secretly plotting revenge on Emily Blunt for landing her dream role of Mary Poppins.
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But it has been another thing entirely to live with and in the sheer vastness of all that waste—not just the unrelenting wash of it and the sudden and unwelcome ubiquity of Bloomberg's stern rictus on every screen with space for sale, but the certainty that it didn't really matter which way it went to anyone involved.
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You check out the people on the street and note the year when they stopped: this one with the death's-head rictus 29, that one in the Perfecto jacket 21974, her friend in the vinyl T-shirt 103, those people looking like drunken ballroom dancers on an ocean liner 210—and that's when you realize you have a year written on your own forehead and it's not the one that tops the current calendar.
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The result has been that playing HQ can be a pretty tortuous experience, with host Scott Rogowsky continually locked in a rictus of low-res agony before lagging out of existence like Max Headroom trying to hijack your TV. It's not uncommon for Rogowsky to disappear for 15 seconds or so before another question pops up on the screen, and he's clearly spending half of the time he does appear on the screen stalling for the lag many users are experiencing.
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This tends to happen fast, because that's how things happen #online, and when it does the whole thing is retroactively and forever emptied of whatever life it once had; all the headlines, written in the gormless rictus YAAAASSSS at which this sort of internet discourse is generally pitched, are not just hollow but actively sad and even a little insulting—to the reader, definitely, but also to the fleeting and authentic joy of the experience that made everything else come tumbling so thirstily after.
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But as the news cycle churns on, we have seen Hillary's example play out, again and again and again, an endless film loop of self-debasement masquerading as self-sacrifice: the spurned wife Mary Jo Buttafuoco standing by husband, Joey, at a press conference, her face permanently contorted by his teenage mistress' bullet; Huma Abedin, elegant and imperturbable in pumps and a tailored pencil skirt, stepping out with her husband and their child days after he'd been caught sending lewd pictures to teenage girls in 2013; and, most recently, Camille Cosby, sitting by her husband's side in court, her face fixed in a rictus of what is either permanent defiance or humiliation.
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It's also hard to overlook the fact that mobile VR's pinnacle moment of PR exposure managed to deliver the single most dystopian tech image of 2016 (IMO) — as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was photographed striding down a conference aisle wearing a rictus grin, while, alongside him, a roomful of men were apparently oblivious to his presence because they were all headsetted and wired in… Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg arriving at a Samsung mobile VR event in early 2016 Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg arriving at a Samsung mobile VR event in early 2016 The stereotypically downturned slack mouth of the VR headset wearer, mobile or otherwise, most often appears as a gormless gape in photographs.
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Portrait of Jehan Rictus by Félix VallottonJehan Rictus (September 21, 1867 – November 6, 1933) was a French poet. He was born Gabriel Randon in Boulogne- sur-Mer. In the 1900s, he legally changed his name to his mother's name Randon de Saint-Amand. After an unhappy childhood and poor beginnings in the life, Gabriel Randon took the pseudonym of Jehan Rictus.
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But on the third wish, she, then Gene, then Alex, then Twinkle gets trapped in the chest all because of Ricky Rictus. Will the Super 4 stop Ricky Rictus in time? ; 22. The King's Jubilee : The castle is bustling with activity for the King's Jubilee.
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Rictus is a genus of Bikosea, a small group of unicellular flagellates, included among the heterokonts.
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Many of the surviving heroes now believed themselves to be actors who had played superheroes. Writer Mark Millar signing a copy of the book during an appearance at Midtown Comics in Manhattan. The Professor also explains to Wesley that Fox and his father had once worked for Mr. Rictus, who controlled the Australian chapter of the Fraternity. When Rictus visits the Professor's headquarters, Fox implies that she and the Killer left Rictus' chapter because he had been harming children.
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Rictus and Future's factions of the Fraternity begin a revolt against the other three. With most of the Professor's supervillains killed, Wesley and Fox must fight off the rival factions on their own. They manage to kill off many of the rebel supervillains, including the Future. This culminates in an attack on their own headquarters, occupied by Rictus and his gang.
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The Mysterium tells Sly he must find and seal off the gate to the previous universe, and to journey to Limbus. The team is captured en route by comic supervillain Rictus; Boots meets former superhero Paco in his prison. Rictus flushes them into empty space; the High Council of Democratus restores the planet to its original size to save them. Scenes of reflection reveal the past on Anachronox.
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He soon becomes a full-fledged Fraternity member, accompanying them on raids of alternate universes and other missions. Wesley is assigned to be the Professor's personal bodyguard during a Fraternity convention in which the leaders of the Fraternity's five chapters will meet. The five leaders are the Professor, Mr. Rictus, Adam-One, the Future, and the Emperor. Here, he learns that Rictus and the Future had long wanted to end the Fraternity's policy of secrecy and rule the world openly.
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The assassins give Jason a tour of the Death Market, where tools of death and murder can be bought, to fill any need provided that the need in question is killing a lot of people. After reuniting with December Graystone, Cheshire, Lady Shiva, and Rictus, Bronze Tiger calls a meeting of the council to which Red Hood is invited. Meanwhile, they are concerned about the security of the city, given the coming war. Rictus assures them that it would take approximately four hundred terawatts of power to break through the city's walls.
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Defeating Rictus and deflecting a bullet through his throat, Wesley demands to know who killed his father but Rictus refuses to answer (or is simply unable to) before he dies. A figure steps out of the shadows revealing himself to be Wesley's father, the original Killer. The Killer reveals that he and Fox left Rictus's chapter not because they objected to harming children but because they knew of his planned revolt. The Killer also says that his skills have been deteriorating with age and he does not want to be killed by anyone inferior to him.
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He found success in 1895 with poems that he interpreted in Parisian cabarets. These poems that Rictus interpreted, called Soliloques du Pauvre (Soliloquies of the Poor), were published in 1897. A few other volumes of verse followed, with Le Coeur populaire being published in 1914. At the time of World War I, he stopped publishing.
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Between 1900 and 1904, Minulescu studied Law at the University of Paris, during which period he was an avid reader of Romantic and Symbolist literatureManu, p.7; Vianu, p.374-375 (works by Gérard de Nerval, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Aloysius Bertrand, Jehan Rictus, Emil Verhaeren, Tristan Corbière, Jules Laforgue, Maurice Maeterlinck, and the Comte de Lautréamont).Botez, p.
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Robert Aickman wrote of O'Sullivan that: > [his short story] "When I Was Dead" is a very rictus or spasm of guilt; > sudden and shattering. Vincent O'Sullivan was a master of this dyeing and > soaking in guilt. The curious should try to find a copy of his novel, The > Good Girl. The quest is difficult, but the product distinctive.
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Saurorictus was first named by Sean P. Modesto and Roger M. H. Smith in 2001 and the type species is Saurorictus australis. The generic name is derived from sauros, Greek for "lizard", and rictus, Latin for "display of teeth" or "smile", thus the meaning is "lizard-smile". The specific name australis, meaning "southern", refers to the fact that this is the southernmost captorhinid to date.
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The burnt-tailed barb is closely related to the bala shark (B. melanopterus). It differs from its congener by a shorter snout, grooves which are posteriorly directed at rictus curved (vs. straight in the bala shark), and narrower black margins on the pelvic and anal fins (on distal third or less compared to the bala shark where the black margins are on distal half or more).
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The Wall of Love (, lit. the I Love You Wall) is a love-themed wall of in the Jehan Rictus garden square in Montmartre, Paris, France. The wall was created in 2000 by calligraphist Fédéric Baron and mural artist Claire Kito and is composed of 612 tiles of enamelled lava, on which the phrase 'I love you' is featured 311 times in 250 languages. Each tile is .
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René De Buxeuil dans Un demi-siècle en chantant Before World War I, he attended the Montparnasse area. At Théâtre de la Gaîté, he met who sang him some tunes. He also sang at Gabriel Montoya in Montmartre and founded Les Loups, a literary society where Jehan Rictus rubbed shoulders with Gaston Couté, Steinlen, Émile Verhaeren or Willette. He signed his first successes interpreted by Junka, including L'âme des violons, ', etc.
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On the 1926 set of The Monkey Talks, Jack Pierce created the makeup for actor Jacques Lernier who was playing a simian with the ability to communicate. The head of Universal, Carl Laemmle, was won over with the creative outcome. Next came the rictus-grin face of Conrad Veidt in The Man Who Laughs (1928), a silent picture. Pierce was then hired full-time by Universal Pictures motion picture studio.
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Makabe provided the voice of Rictus Erectus in the Japanese dub of the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road. In 2016, Makabe, along with Hiroshi Tanahashi, appeared in Garo: Ashura, the 10th anniversary special of the Japanese tokusatsu series Garo. He also provided the voice for the animated version of himself in the Tiger Mask W anime. Makabe voices a boss character on the Japanese version of the video game Let It Die.
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The Super 4 have to discover what is happening and save the Fairy Queen's followers. Will they manage to stop the Unicorn of Terror before the Frog Queen, who gets mixed up in everything, starts a war between the Fairies and the Knights? ; 21. Ricky Rictus : When the Super 4 have to walk to the fairies castle on foot, Ruby falls in a hole and finds a minuscule chest that grants her 3 wishes.
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In The New 52 (a 2011 reboot of the DC Comics universe), the League of Assassins reside in the sacred city of 'Eth Alth'eban. Lady Shiva, Rictus, Cheshire, December Graystone, and Bronze Tiger target Red Hood. They end up capturing Jason Todd and bring him to 'Eth Alth'eban so that he can help lead the League of Assassins.Red Hood and the Outlaws #21 Red Hood has been led to 'Eth Alth'eban, where the League of Assassins resides.
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Risus sardonicus or rictus grin is a highly characteristic, abnormal, sustained spasm of the facial muscles that appears to produce grinning. Risus sardonicus may be caused by tetanus, strychnine poisoning, or Wilson's disease, and has been reported after judicial hanging. The condition's name, associated with the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, derives from the appearance of raised eyebrows and an open "grin" – which can appear sardonic or malevolent to the lay observer – displayed by those experiencing these muscle spasms.
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In December 1902 Émile Janvion was one of the founders of the Ligue antimilitariste, along with fellow anarchists Henri Beylie, Paraf-Javal, Albert Libertad and Georges Yvetot. The Ligue antimilitariste was to become the French section of the Association internationale antimilitariste (AIA). In preparation for the anti-militarist congress in Amsterdam in 1904 Janvion launched L'Ennemi du peuple (The Enemy of the People). The bi-monthly four- page journal first appeared in August 1903, with contributions from Miguel Almereyda, Zo d'Axa, Lucien Descaves, Élie Faure, Urbain Gohier, Charles Malato and Jehan Rictus.
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When Ron Johnson ceased to operate, the band continued with their own Rictus Recordings label, releasing the albums Zib Zob and his Kib Kob and Mellow Throated in 1989 and 1991 respectively, before splitting up. The band were described by the Birmingham Mail as a "wonderfully perverse avant weird outfit".Davies, Mike (2001) "CD Reviews: Rock and Pop", Birmingham Mail, 17 February 2001, p. 8 Singer Martin Longley and bassist Chris Horton formed a new band, The Clicking Stick, along with Paul McKenna, releasing the album Mocrophone in 2001.
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After receiving some encouragement, Couté decided at the age of 18 in 1898 to go to Paris. After several lean yeans, he found some success in cabarets. He also collaborated with Théodore Botrel for the journal La Bonne Chanson. Singer and poet Jehan Rictus, who based his poems on the use of slang, was aware of Couté's talent and said of him, "Georges Oble and me, we were undoubtedly in the presence of a teenager of genius who, to his extraordinary gifts, already combined a most skilful technique and in-depth knowledge of the profession".
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The subject of the painting is the martyrdom of the Saints Crispin and Crispinian. According to the Christian legend the two saints were twin brothers born to a noble Roman family in the 3rd century AD. They were allegedly persecuted, tortured and put to death for their faith by Rictus Varus in Belgic Gaul. They became the patron saints of cobblers, tanners, and leather workers, and the church honoured them with a feast day celebrated on 25 October.The two saints were removed from the liturgical calendar (but not declared to no longer be saints) during the Catholic Church's Vatican II reforms.
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" In their story "The Laughing Fish", the Joker is brazen enough to disfigure fish with a rictus grin, then expects to be granted a federal trademark on them, only to start killing bureaucrats who try to explain that obtaining such a claim on a natural resource is legally impossible.Greenberger and Manning, p. 163: "In this fondly remembered tale that was later adapted into an episode of the 1990s cartoon Batman: The Animated Series, the Joker poisoned the harbors of Gotham so that the fish would all bear his signature grin, a look the Joker then tried to trademark in order to collect royalties.
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Then, fearing for his soul and in a fit of remorse, he put up funds towards the cathedral's reconstruction which was started the same year under the episcopacy of the bishop Jean VII de Lizaunet. In a small corner of the south tower, there is a carving depicting "Jean sans Terre" bearing a rictus grin. He was certainly no friend of the people of Dol. By 1223, the nave had been completed and subsequently, the relics of Saint Samson were brought back to the cathedral from Normandy to where they had been taken for reasons of security.
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He said that the name came first, followed by an image of a playing card from a deck he often had at hand: "I wanted somebody visually exciting. I wanted somebody that would make an indelible impression, would be bizarre, would be memorable like the Hunchback of Notre Dame or any other villains that had unique physical characters." He told Finger about his concept by telephone, later providing sketches of the character and images of what would become his iconic Joker playing-card design. Finger thought the concept was incomplete, providing the image of Veidt with a ghastly, permanent rictus grin.
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The Professor, Adam-One, and the Emperor favored secrecy for supervillains in order to get "the loot without the leg- breaking" and avoid gaining the attention of the larger multiverse, and have always managed to outvote Rictus and the Future. Though it seems that the Emperor is about to switch sides, the Professor subtly manipulates him to vote in favor of secrecy yet again. After the meeting, the Professor leaves in a limo hoping to pick up a child prostitute. However, his driver is actually being impersonated by Shithead, Rictus's right-hand man, and the Professor is murdered by him.
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In the film, Jack Napier is the right-hand man of mob boss Carl Grissom (Jack Palance) prior to his transformation into the Joker. During a confrontation with the vigilante Batman (Michael Keaton) in a chemical factory, Napier's face is wounded by a ricocheting bullet and he falls into a vat of chemical waste, turning his skin white, his hair green and his lips red. A botched attempt at plastic surgery leaves him with a permanent rictus grin. Driven insane by his reflection, the Joker kills Grissom and takes over his syndicate, launching a crime wave designed to "outdo" Batman, who he thinks is getting too much press.
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Napier survives, but the chemicals turn his skin chalk white, his lips red, and his hair green, while a botched attempt at plastic surgery leaves him with a permanent rictus grin. Driven insane by his reflection, Napier - now calling himself "Joker" - kills Grissom and takes over his operations . Styling himself as a "homicidal artist", Joker becomes obsessed with "outdoing" Batman, who he believes is stealing the spotlight from him. Aided by his right-hand man Bob (Tracey Walter), Joker begins poisoning multiple cosmetic products with "Smylex", a chemical agent that causes its victims to laugh hysterically as they die, leaving their corpses with a permanent smile.
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Amietophrynus cristiglans is a moderate-sized species with adult males measuring about from snout to vent. They have a distinct tympanum; a tarsal ridge; low, rounded warts on back and sides; elongate parotoids that reach the eye with a distinct dorsolateral edge; and a first finger longer than the second. The color of these frogs in life is clay above but darker on the sides with two indefinite transverse light areas, one interorbital and one sacral. There is a dark bar on the cheek below the eye and another from the eye to the rictus covering the tympanum as well as an interrupted interorbital dark bar and obscure dark markings on the back.
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The Joker has no inherent superhuman abilities. He commits crimes with a variety of weaponized thematic props such as a deck of razor-tipped playing cards, rolling marbles, jack-in-the-boxes with unpleasant surprises and exploding cigars capable of leveling a building. The flower in his lapel sprays acid, and his hand often holds a lethal joy buzzer conducting a million volts of electricity, although both items were introduced in 1952 as harmless joke items. However, his chemical genius provides his most-notable weapon: Joker venom, a liquid or gaseous toxin that sends its targets into fits of uncontrollable laughter; higher doses can lead to paralysis, coma or death, leaving its victim with a ghoulish, pained rictus grin.
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Cyprinid fishes of the genus Balantiocheilos are easily distinguished from other members of the family by the presence of thick and fleshy lips, the lower lip bearing a large lobe that is deeply incised medially along its posterior edge and black along the distal margins of the dorsal, caudal, anal and pelvic fins. The posterior margin of the lower lip has often been described as forming a posteriorly opening pouch or pocket between the lip and the skin of the throat. B. ambusticauda can be differentiated from B. melanopterus by a shorter snout. Also, in B. ambusticauda the rictus (junction of the premaxilla and maxilla at the corner of the mouth) has posteriorly direct grooves that are curved instead of straight.
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As a little boy watches a TV show called Smile Time, featuring puppets singing songs about learning, one of the puppets, Polo, tells the boy to put his hands on the TV. The boy's mother enters the room, horrified to see that the life has been drained out of the boy and his face is frozen in a rictus smile. In the science lab at Wolfram & Hart, Knox brings Fred files on children who have been hospitalized in the same condition as the little boy. Knox also gives Fred a valentine and tries to get her to discuss their potential relationship, but she gently declines his advances. When Harmony tells Gunn he filed the wrong papers, he tries to hide how worried he is about his mistake.
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Mob boss Carl Grissom, whom Dent and Gordon are targeting, sends his sociopathic second-in- command Jack Napier to raid Axis Chemicals, unaware it is a set-up aimed at having him murdered for sleeping with Grissom's mistress Alicia. Although corrupt police lieutenant Eckhardt arranges the hit on Napier by conducting an unauthorized police operation, Gordon arrives, takes command, and orders officers to capture him alive. When Batman arrives to prevent Napier's escape, Eckhardt is killed during the confrontation, while Napier himself falls into a vat of chemicals when attempting to attack Batman, and is presumed dead by all. However, Napier survives, but is left disfigured with chalk white skin, emerald green hair, and a rictus grin, resulting in him being driven insane and assuming the name of "the Joker".
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Nightwing #0 She is later revealed to be a League of Assassins member who taught Red Hood along with Bronze Tiger. She fights alongside Bronze Tiger, Cheshire, December Graystone, Rictus, and Red Hood as the Untitled infiltrated the League of Assassin's secret city.Red Hoot and the Outlaws #21 Instead of her traditional black coat, the New 52 version of Shiva has appeared in a teal kabuki-like garb and mask, and is shown to be a master of weapons and martial arts, going to battle with throwing knives, swords, and usually a pair of kusarigama. In full gear she appears to have an extremely long, auburn braid with blades embedded in the hair that can be used offensively, but this is merely a wig connected to her mask.
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Englehart claims this storyline was adapted as the first Batman film in 1989, with Englehart providing uncredited development. The Englehart and Rogers pairing was described in 2009 by comics writer and historian Robert Greenberger as "one of the greatest" creative teams to work on the Batman character. DC Comics writer and executive Paul Levitz noted that "Arguably fans' best-loved version of Batman in the mid-1970s, writer Steve Englehart and penciller Rogers's Detective run featured an unambiguously homicidal Joker...in noirish, moodily rendered stories that evoked the classic Kane- Robinson era." In their story "The Laughing Fish", the Joker is brazen enough to disfigure fish with a rictus grin, then expects to be granted a federal trademark on them, only to start killing bureaucrats who try to explain that obtaining such a claim on a natural resource is legally impossible.
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" In an almost neutral review, Jon Dolan wrote for Rolling Stone that the album "shows how good he is at making Eurohouse's thumping trounce and jet-engine synth whoosh feel like natural elements in the hip-hop, R&B; and even rock continuum." Ally Carnwath wrote a negative review for The Observer, rating it 1 out of 5 stars, writing that the album's collaborations "struggle to impose any distinctive personality on the overall mood of relentless rictus-grin-inducing euphoria." Tom Ewing from The Guardian criticized Guetta for making "tiring dancefloor fillers" and concluded that "Nothing But the Beat may sound like a one-man hit parade, but it also takes its title far too literally." Eric Henderson wrote negatively for Slant Magazine that "His sound may be the most influential force in pop music today, but he's paradoxically been artistically overshadowed by imitators and innovators alike, all of whom demonstrate a better understanding of power pop's legacy (Lady Gaga's "The Edge of Glory"), dance-floor dynamics (Rihanna's "S&M;"), and ridiculous self-awareness (LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem").
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