Word: curmudgeoned
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...nature voyeuristic rather than confession al. Of Jeanne, Buñuel's wife of almost 50 years, we learn only that he married her in Paris (forbidding her family to attend), had lunch with her, then took a train alone to Madrid. On his 32 films the Aragonian curmudgeon throws little light; neither Los Olvidados nor Viridiana nor Belle de Jour receives as much space as he lavishes on his recipe for the perfect dry martini. Perhaps he is not being coy when he avers that his real life was in dreams, so many of which surfaced as blunt...
Houseman never thinks of himself as an actor, but late in his career he is persuaded to play Professor Kingsfield, the law-school curmudgeon, in the film The Paper Chase and then in a subsequent TV series. At the Academy Awards the following year he waits "with clenched buttocks for some goon lady to open an envelope." The prize propels him into yet another subcareer in his 70s, acting in films and commercials...
...strategy is to connive with Charles's brother Joseph (Tony Shalhoub) in his attempts to win the heart of Charles's sweetheart Maria (Karen MacDonald). Matters become more complicated with the question of Charles and Joseph's inheritance from a rich uncle; the boys ward, a middle-aged curmudgeon bewildered by his pretty young wife, disagrees with the rich uncle as to which nephew is the more deserving; a game of mistaken identities is utilized to test the character of the young Surfaces; and several infidelities intervene. It all takes a bit more than three hours to unwind, and somehow...
...surface, the mood ranged from cozy to playful as members of the 98th Congress convened to be sworn in last week. In the Senate, New Right Curmudgeon Jesse Helms of North Carolina, whose filibusters made him a renegade late last year, embraced two of his colleagues at once, while newly elected Virginia Republican Paul Trible, 36, sat down for a deferential chat with sixth-term Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, 81. In the House, children crawled around the floor and squalled lustily as their parents took the oath of office. Bluegrass music twanged through the Rayburn Office Building, where Freshman Democrat...
...long series of sheep-dog trials, sheep-shearing contests, horse races and other bucolic competitions. Or that the only telephone line is a single strand on which the islanders not only eavesdrop but into which they even plug their radios for family entertainment. Legend has it that one vengeful curmudgeon attached the lone telephone wire to an electric power outlet and blew out the radios in the Falklands...