Word: demeanors
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...Loeb performance succeeds winningly when contrasting the Bulgarians' demeanor to Bluntschli's, and would seem to be intended to go off on this level. The message of the production, then, is that if you never bathe you will, according to Major Petkoff, probably live to be 98, but you will certainly not get the girl...
Even in these face-to-face meetings, though, Jobert remains an enigma. Small in stature (5 ft. 4 in.) and shy in demeanor, Jobert is a world apart from the usual backslapping, smiling politician. Born in Morocco of French parents, he did not come to France to live until he was 18. He graduated from the prestigious National School of Administration, and until Pompidou appointed him Foreign Minister in 1973, he had spent his entire career as a bureaucrat. He is quiet, shakes hands with a stiffness in his right arm from a war wound, and rarely smiles, except...
Carey had all the attributes of a winning New York candidate. Brooklyn-born and bred, he had the genial but "don't tread on me" demeanor of the neighborhood Irish bartender. A Roman Catholic widower with a dozen children, he was at home with the city's ethnic denizens who ask, above all, that they not be looked down upon. At the same time, he was acceptable to the city's liberals, the imperial custodians of party affairs. Though he served Brooklyn's most conservative district, he maintained a relatively liberal voting record. Besides, after more...
...Cincinnati, gets the highest marks for his "great balance and perspective." Frank Borman, now a vice president at Eastern Airlines, "makes decisions faster than anyone I have ever met." Collins is awed by his Gemini 10 partner John Young, a country boy whose "aw shucks, 't aint nothing" demeanor masks a brilliant engineering mind...
...most crucial element in any stage treatment of Happy Days is the way Winnie's optimism is portrayed; therein lies the play's real philosophical substance. Winnie's happy and resigned demeanor is the thing that sustains her through her travail, and it must be taken seriously. The task facing the director and the actress playing Winnie is to explicate and elucidate her faith, and this is the Loeb's major failing in the current production...