Word: genial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mike Leigh, Gong Li and Jennifer Jason Leigh were all on the Riviera to peddle their films at dozens of press conferences and at luncheon interviews. Gong Li fared better at a posh dinner for her film Temptress Moon; her tablemate was not some grubby journalist but the genial dauphin of nearby Monaco. It was the first time in nine years that Grace Kelly's son had visited the festival, lured by Temptress Moon's elegant producer Hsu Feng, who thus provided a new answer to the old question: How do you get Prince Albert into Cannes...
...drag queen and his slightly more butch companion. Lane is wildly endearing: a tempestuous wife, a doting mother and every inch the great lady. The film gets less comic mileage, but more political kick, from the right-wing politician (Hackman) who is the butt of the film's genial jokes. He might be Pat Robertson or Pat Buchanan on a bad day. In the mistaken-identity dinner party that serves as the film's third act, it is his function to be enlightened--not to forgive the gay couple for any crime against nature but to realize that charm...
Alexander's pristine image speaks to his skill in attacking his opponents for their attacks on their opponents. With his genial, schoolteachery manner he can deliver threats in an unthreatening way. He can imply that Bob Dole is too old and it doesn't sound mean, that Bill Clinton is a liar and it doesn't sound disrespectful. When he arrived Tuesday night in Laconia, the hall was packed and sprinkled with plaid; the crowd was ready to shop for something new. Without so much as a stumble, Alexander delivered the smoothest speech since Clinton's State of the Union...
...when he was beaten back by George Bush, another patrician playing the populist and making dubious promises about taxes. "Dole spent 35 years on the public payroll and became a multimillionaire," Forbes teases lethally in Iowa. "But I won't use the class-warfare argument against him." A tough, genial and private man, Steve Forbes has surely known his share of sorrow. But it is hard to imagine his enduring as painful a season as Bob Dole now faces in these last cold days before his fate is decided...
...didn't happen that way, and Forbes hopes the contrast was not lost on voters. Forbes is an amiable prophet, a genial man with a heartfelt belief that if America's entrepreneurial energies are unleashed, its families protected and its politicians chastened, everything will turn out O.K. This may be his most surprising contribution to the race: after a year in which Republicans like Pete Wilson, Pat Buchanan and Phil Gramm tried to outworry each other on affirmative action, immigration and crime, along comes Forbes, who wipes the polarizing issues off the table. In their place is the Reaganesque liturgy...