Word: avuncularity
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...Jerome Kern, piles Ossa on Pelion, Mt. Everest on top of that, and garnishes with a couple of dozen minor ranges. It is not exactly strong on story. The only clouds in Composer Kern's life-Broadway's onetime preference for English tunes, and Kern's avuncular concern over his arranger's problem daughter-seem to have been no bigger than a man's hand, and just about as unusual. But for those who like popular music and attractive entertainers, the story will be no more troublesome than a sack race: the movie gets there...
...Cleopatra lived together in the most literal sense of the phrase. Cleopatra bore him a son, Caesarion, who was promising enough to be assassinated eventually by order of Octavian. In Shaw's charming fiction, they warily skirt the quagmires of passion while the aging political genius, with rueful avuncular irony, helps to convert the puppet Queen from a fierce child into a woman, ripe for Mark Antony's plucking...
Between service stretches in China, Joe Stilwell taught infantry tactics back in the U.S. He also raised a family-three daughters, two sons. But Joe Stilwell, honest, good-humored scholar, teacher and family man, was also known as an acidulous observer of the world of men. For his avuncular benignity, he was called "Uncle Joe." For his biting comments on dopes and humbugs, he was nicknamed "Vinegar...
...Havilland and Pilot Cummings exchange some rather rare wheezes about his ability to perpetuate the royal line and she decides he is just what she needs. Then the picture shifts to Washington for what is getting to be a patent Warner Bros, windup. It seems that President Roosevelt has avuncular feelings toward the princess, so he invites her to the White House. When Pilot Cummings realizes that his marriage will mean the loss of his U.S. citizenship, a quarrel develops. President Roosevelt is treated with Warners' usual restraint; only his shoulder appears in the picture. But Fala (played...
...liven things up, she decides to summon from Philadelphia the family's favorite relative, tall, handsome Uncle Charlie (Joseph Gotten). But Uncle Charlie, for reasons of his own, is already on the way. He arrives with a large, comfortable halo of presents, money and avuncular good humor. The rest of the family lionizes Uncle. The girl begins to feel a sense of menace...