Word: calme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...George. George is the one character Beatty tries to make believable. When Jill, irate at his sexual habits, calls him a good-for-nothing, George sits down and begins to sob in despairing agreement. When Lenny blows up at him for moving in on Jackie, George tries to calm the executive with the sincere assurance that Jackie truly loves him. But such scenes are unconvincing, for George's overall personality has been made abundantly clear: he is nothing but a dumb stud, whose only responsibility is to make sure he wipes his groin clean before going from one woman...
Cantelme, a thickset blonde with a footballer's physique (the came to the door shirtless) and a calm, direct manner was allowed to apply to Harvard past the deadline in his senior year in high school but was nevertheless rejected. In his second year at Glendale, where he was an English major, he sent letters and made several phone calls to the admissions office about transferring before he was told of the moratorium. Finally, he was able to talk with Mosley who agreed to take his petition before the admissions committee. Cantelme never received any official explanation...
Although the government has sought to exhibit an air of calm about recent events in Portugal, there is no question that it is extremely concerned about the centrifugal pull the Portuguese revolution could have on Spain. The regime's response has been to clamp down even more. Says one leading Socialist: "The Old Guard is praying desperately that the Portuguese revolution will fail. Although the government is saying nothing, we know many of its members are secretly delighted that Portugal seems to be moving to a military dictatorship of the left. This is bad news...
...debate in Washington was remarkably calm and reasoned, even though it revived the nation's receding emotions over its most distressing military entanglement. At issue were the Ford Administration's request to send $222 million in additional military aid to President Lon Nol's shaky Cambodian government and, less urgently, $300 million in more arms to the less immediately endangered government of South Viet Nam's Nguyen Van Thieu...
...calm man, a big man. He doesn't get excited. He was probably depicted erroneously when he took the title of marshal. But I'm not linked to any groups or personalities here. I've kept my distance. I'm not emotionally involved...