Word: debonair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Enough watchable in its own right? I suppose so, but just make sure you have the right expectations. There are definitely impressive stunts, nifty special effects and attractive women. Pierce Brosnan well champions Bond's character in the face of the hoopla; his sardonic smirking and other unruffled debonair mannerisms are spot on, plus, he looks astoundingly good in dinner-wear. Sophie Marceau is quite passable as the requisite mysteriously alluring Bond conquest, and although Denise Richards really can't act, she's rather easy on the eyes. There are atrocious puns galore, some of which are kind of funny...
...regular contributor for The New York Times Book Review), Kiely is also the master who dressed up as a nun at drag night to sing "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?" from The Sound of Music. On one hand, he is half of the debonair couple that always makes a splash at House waltzes and swings, and on the other is an enthusiastic participant in the festivities of St. Patrick's Day, serving Black and Tans and step dancing...
...piqued Lt. Dawson. Really slow weekend? Try Tommy Lee Jones and Faye Dunaway in 1978's "The Eyes of Laura Mars," about the terror stalking of a high-fashion photographer, or scour the classics shelves for the 1948 Dragnet precursor "He Walks By Night," with Richard Basehart as the debonair slasher. Beltway addicts, of course, will want to skip right to "Julius Caesar." Just make sure it's the 1953 version, with Brando as the Emperor Newt...
...Standchen" should have been the prettiest of the set, but Dohnanyi's tempo was too fast. It made the song's tenderness debonair. But the last song, "An Schwager Kronos," was perfect. Baer kept close to the text, and the orchestra's playing was wonderfully subdued, until the triumphant final fanfare, which sounded better in the horns than it ever could on a piano. The music was so, compelling that it more than made up for the few previous disappointments. Baer got the loud and abundant applause he deserved...
...humid weekday afternoon in Washington. Seven men were sitting in the spare, modern living room of Bob Squier's Capitol Hill town house making tense small talk, eating deli sandwiches, sipping diet sodas and herbal tea. Although the debonair media consultant was the nominal host, the meeting had been called by Dick Morris, Bill Clinton's stealth strategist. Morris had been secretly advising the President for six months and had emerged from the shadows only in April. Now Clinton had asked him to assemble the campaign's creative team. But despite Clinton's endorsement, Morris' position inside the White House...