Word: coyness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unlike many of their French newspaper competitors (and like U.S. food critics), Gault and Millau consistently name names. If commenting on Maxim's, they avoid such coy evasions as "a well-known restaurant on the Rue Royale." As a result, they sometimes face the fury of advertisers and libel suits. Of one establishment they recently wrote: "The fish soup was watery, the lobster brochette insipid . . . Only the maitre d'hôtel had a smile on his face." The offending Marseille restaurant-appropriately named Le New York -lost not only customers but the libel suit as well...
Eastman has a quirkish, distinctly personal tone that goes coy once in a while, as in a labored double-entendre exchange between Vic and a black woman (Rosalind Cash) over the installation of a car radio ("Do you want it in the front or in the back?"). But the movie is also full of humor, melancholy and some dazzling film making. This is Eastman's first film as a director, but he demonstrates considerable sophistication, a feeling for textures and odd nuances. One long scene in a gym-empty at first, then slowly filling with fighters doing exercises...
When the time came to announce his nominee, Nixon was through being coy. In fact, the ceremony in the East Room of the White House had all the atmosphere of a mini-political convention. There was the man-who speech by Nixon, arms uplifted in triumph and a roar of approval from the audience -members of Congress, presidential aides and representatives from the diplomatic corps (the Supreme Court Justices decided that their presence would be improper and declined to attend). It was an oddly exuberant happening, considering its origin in Agnew's tragedy, and some Republicans considered the performance...
Lesley is initially an appealing character; proud, self-sufficient, wonderful in her precociousness. In first grade, she calls the teacher a "dumb fuck;" she extends that assessment coolly to all surrounding people and events. She stands slouching remotely from everything, alternately coy or arrogant, ready always with the correct line or manner. There is something arresting about her decisive mastery of otherwise untenable situations...
...pure Morris: the best (the sidelong wit and the marvelously supple prose, now gold, now grit) along with the worst (the wooden dialogue, the coy hints at profound meanings that never quite come out from behind the prose screens). More than any of his 17 previous novels, the story takes off from the workaday world in search of the ineffable. The familiar trappings of Wright's baroque realism turn up: the taste of switch grass and cord grass, the loom of grain elevators, the feel of a kitten dropped by wanton boys into a country-school privy...