Word: cynicisms
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...principal character of the new novel. Rob Wyatt, a 32-year-old lawyer, is not even sure that he wants to hear his own monologues. He sees himself as a philosophical bigamist wedded to two perspectives: "Robert the Serious, a believer; also Rob the Ironic, jokester and cynic." The storm rearranges the rhetoric, leaving Rob the Observer, who drops out of his law firm to live at the beach with his dog Speedo...
...Cori Lynn Peterson, were respectively endearing and evil. Although Beth Turner as Frank's best friend, did not sing as well as the other two, she provided some of the best acting of the evening. And Tim Krochak (Frank) performed equally as well as a 40-year old cynic and a naive college...
...life of the Cuban capital as Fidel Castro's revolutionaries prepared to take it in the waning days of 1958, he also recaptures something of the doomy delirium of the film that obviously inspired him. And some of its smartness too: the dialogue -- especially that of its resident cynic, its Captain Renault (Alan Arkin playing a casino owner) -- is polished to a high sheen...
...harder for a traveler in the Soviet Union to find someone who has anything good to say about Mikhail Gorbachev than it was for Diogenes the Cynic, in his wanderings through the streets of Athens in broad daylight with a lantern, to find an honest man. Gorbachev's unpopularity can be understood only as part of what is happening to the country as a whole, no matter who tries to govern from the Kremlin...
...only reluctantly in 1988, when Congress, fed up with Pentagon foot-dragging, designated the Defense Department as the lead agency for "detection and monitoring" of drug smuggling. Now with the Soviet threat receding and Congress calling for defense cuts, the Pentagon welcomes any new mission. Says a Capitol Hill cynic: "The military sneered at drug interdiction -- until they saw the budget crunch coming...