twinkler

The Twinkler is a 1916 American silent crime drama film directed by Edward Sloman.

Hootabelle lights the stars in the land of Giggle and Hoot with her Star Twinkler.

With Captain Batt shut down, they meet the Twinkler, the star's maintenance man (he looks like Cap'n Bill).

Upon meeting a potential suitor, Anne and Elisabeth Morrow would assign him to one of four romantic categories: Sparkler, Twinkler, Worthy or Lump.

These mistranslation puns are impossible to translate to English effectively, though the English subtitles do try to create different puns (twinkler instead of phaser, twist for warp, etc.).

By the time she was 20, Anne Morrow had rejected at least one impeccably qualified Twinkler, determined, apparently, to live up to a vow she had made upon graduating from Miss Chapin's School in 1924.

A purer abstraction occurs in Jean Arp's "Star" (1939), a playfully five-pointed twinkler dancing on a cylindrical base, made more ethereal by the roundish hole in its middle, used in a manner similar to that of the Léger piece.