Word: alistair
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...second session replacing the late Richard Harris as Hogwarts principal Dumbledore, Michael Gambon has a ponderous, aristocratic humanism. Gary Oldman?s Sirius, the human-canine from the third film, has a bright cameo as a face in the fireplace. The movie strikes black gold with Alistair ?Mad-Eye? Moody, Hogwarts? new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Played by Brendan Gleeson with a swagger and spume not seen since Robert Newton?s Long John Silver (another charming dastard), Mad-Eye has a globular left orb that stares skeptically, maniacally, at all it surveys. He seems both amiable and deranged...
...They by no means have a monopoly on social life at Yale,” says Alistair F. Anagnostou, a member of the Yale Class of 2005. “Frats are at least consistent—if you want to find a party on a Saturday night, there’s going...
...almost immediately, the central storyline is shoved out by a series of subplots that meander in and out of the movie’s consciousness, rarely gaining enough thematic momentum or significance to justify their existences. A rivalry with fellow oceanographer Alistair Hennessey (Jeff Goldblum) offers a handful of barbed laughs, but ultimately devolves into plot-driving filler. Utterly superfluous segments about the expedition’s financial woes cheekily squander the ample talents of actor Michael Gambon (Gosford Park). To decry an Anderson film for its sideline prattling may be missing the point, but where seemingly nonsensical scenes might...
...nuisance,' Britain's Guardian wrote of its U.S. correspondent, Alistair Cooke. 'He telephones his copy at the last moment. He says that he will be in Chicago and turns up in Los Angeles ... If all his colleagues were like him, production of this paper would cease.' But, the Guardian conceded, 'we think he's worth it.' Most of Alistair Cooke's readers and listeners seem to agree. A nuisance he is to conventional thought, both in his column for the Guardian and in his Sunday evening broadcast from New York for the BBC ... Since his BBC broadcasts are beamed...
...Cooke's Tour Columnist and BBC commentator Alistair Cooke, who died in March [MILESTONES, April 12], dazzled radio listeners as an analyzer of American life for almost 60 years. When he celebrated his 1,000th broadcast for the British network 36 years ago, we described his journalistic habits [April...