Word: dourness
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Reagan speeches, despite the man's pre-Labor Day build-up as an actor and the exaggerated Time Magazine reports about his fantastic charisma, are surprisingly dour and mechanical...
CACTUS FLOWER. The French need sex farces as children need fairy tales. In this telling, a dour duckling (Lauren Bacall) becomes an appealing swan just in time to tame the big wolf (Barry Nelson...
Thus was dissipated a wave of speculation about the possible retirement of the dry, dour Kosygin, regarded as a leading exponent of reform at home and restraint abroad. In recent months, Kremlinologists have professed to divine signs that the 62-year-old Premier might be in failing health and weary of the job. Instead, Kosygin was unanimously re-elected by the delegates on the first day, along with some of the other members of the collective leadership that took over from Nikita Khrushchev almost two years ago: among them President Nikolai Podgorny and First Deputy Premiers Kyrill Mazurov and Dmitry...
...headlines predicting their marriage bounced around the world. The President was at the L.B.J. ranch, recuperating from his gall-bladder operation, when Pat and Luci flew there on Oct. 29-presumably to obtain his permission to marry. It was widely surmised in print that the President, in an unusually dour mood, had vetoed their request. The situation evoked memories of Ulysses S. Grant, who brooded for 18 months before al lowing the dashing Algernon Sartoris to marry his Nellie, who was a tender 18 by the time she reached the altar...
Divorced. By Kim Novak, 33, Hollywood package often undone by her films (Kiss Me, Stupid, The Notorious Landlady): Richard Johnson, 38, dour British actor and her co-star in The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders; on uncontested grounds of mental cruelty (he refused to live in the U.S.), after 15 months of marriage, no children; in Salinas, Calif...