Word: curmudgeoned
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...announcement that the Oakland A's had been bought by Denver Oilman Marvin Davis probably brought as much joy to the baseball Establishment as it did to Denverites. For the move signaled the departure from baseball of Oakland Owner Charles O. Finley after nearly two decades as resident curmudgeon of the national pastime. The sale-temporarily blocked last week by a federal court restraining order obtained by the Oakland Coliseum-must be okayed by ten of the American League's 14 owners. But approval should be quickly forthcoming from men who have little love for Finley...
Even with his humorous and noble style intact, Lancelot is Percy's bitterest novel, written not with the black humor of alienation but with the crotchety distemper of a curmudgeon. It does not add to Lancelot Edwarde Lamar's credibility as an existential visionary that he speaks from a private cell in a mental hospital, reflecting on his incineration of his adulterous wife and her lover on his family estate. There is a sense that Percy feels ambivalent towards a character who might be his spokesman and who might also be crazy...
...creation in a mellow mood. Oh, he can still total a liquor store in the course of rescuing hostages, and he still has the fastest lip in the business when backtalking a superior. But in The Enforcer, Harry appears halfway along the road to becoming a lovable old curmudgeon...
...Atlanta World (circ. 19,500), the other black daily, is the fief of a curmudgeon, C.A. Scott, 62, editor, general manager and resident tyrant. Founded in 1928, the World was once the flagship of a chain of papers with a circulation of 80,000. Says Scott: "Man, we were trailblazers. It's only in my old age that I realized what we done." What he is doing now is publishing a well-designed and well-edited paper that espouses a conservative posture that confounds progressive blacks; the World, for example, has never supported a black against a white...
Witness for the Prosecution. Great actors often hit a stretch in their careers when they get picked up exclusively for curmudgeon roles. Charles Laughton does his here, and does it with conviction and wit. Playing a sly and grumpy barrister with a heart condition, he sometimes tips his actor's hand by a little too much of the loveable Churchillian bit; generally he is unforgettable. Almost as important here is his wife Elsa Lanchester who mostly pipes at Laughton and confiscates his cigars. Yes, it's true that even in middle age Marlene Dietrich has terrific legs...