Word: benignly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Occasionally, Schlesinger betrays the work with anachronistic tricks-slowmotion footage or distorted lenses-and the film's stately pace sometimes grinds to a standstill. As Hardy did, Schlesinger relies on the countryside to give the story its character. Benign or brooding, the huge hillocks and gun-metal skies gradually engulf the people and dwarf even their grandest moments. At last, every object of admiration-including Julie Christie, whose sensual beauty has never been more sensuously photographed-is made to be only a mere and minor part of England's green, unpleasant land...
Stage humor is in transition. The old humor of the gag and the wise crack was confident, benign, a pick-me-up rather than a putdown. The new humor, which draws its tone from play wrights such as Albee and Pinter, is cruel, taut-nerved, and speaks the lingo of the obscene and the absurd, not funny-ha-ha but funny-peculiar. The new humor reigns in off-Broadway's Scuba Duba, a flagellatingly funny first play by Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman (Stern, A Mother's Kisses...
...contender against some of the people. Said an aide: "I just wish that he would be the bastard that he really is." Instead, he has attempted the impossible feat of trying to please all of the people all of the time, chiefly by posing as a benign granddaddy and an openhanded Uncle Sugar. In consequence, he has managed to alienate a sizable number of them...
...intestinal cramps, nausea and intermittent fever that brought him back from his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo and caused him to cancel all appointments; Nellie Connolly, 47, wife of Texas' Democratic Governor, recuperating in Houston's M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute after removal of a benign, olive-size growth on her jaw; General Earle G. Wheeler, 59, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recovering at Walter Reed Hospital from a "minor" heart attack that was disclosed by the Pentagon after two days of denials that he suffered from anything other than fatigue...
...naturalized American citizen and a New York resident for 20 years, I wish to congratulate you calorosamente for your benign, brassy, bothering, blatant, beautiful and very belated cover story [April 21] on my always beloved Brazil...