Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are other, subtler differences between Easy and his predecessor. He owns a trim little house (complete with worrisome mortgage), yearns for the settled life and narrates his adventures in a style that avoids the lush metaphors Chandler favored. He even has a sidekick, Mouse (Don Cheadle), a genial psychopath in a bowler hat, comically eager to rub out anyone who crosses his path, whether he deserves it or not. He's a scene stealer, but so is everyone else Easy encounters: the nervously sexyBeals, a brutal-funny fixer with ambiguous loyalties (Tom Sizemore), an epicene politician (Maury Chaykin...
...genial and bespectacled, Forbes looks like an owl surprised at midday. But he feels his strength is as the strength of ten, for his ideas are pure: supply-side Republicanism, from the dawn of the Reagan era. Forbes believes the nation's major problems can be solved simply, with a flat tax allowing few deductions and a stable monetary system tethered to the price of gold. The present tax code, he says, is "a source of political pollution. If you don't clear it out, the weeds will grow back again." And if a new tax system throws revenue projections...
...Battalion," he said in passable English. Hieu was my Army of the Republic of Vietnam (arvn) counterpart, the man I would be advising. He was short, in his early 30s, with a broad face and an engaging smile. But for the uniform, I would have taken him for a genial schoolteacher...
...predicted that the genial economics concentrator could have the phenomenal season he had, but one need only survey his numbers (101) rushing yards total, six games over 100 yards, 11 touchdowns) and awards (Ivy League Rookie of the Year, ECAC I-AA Rookie of the Year, Second-Team All-Ivy) for proof. The classic north-south runner is just the second man in school history to top 1000 yards in a season...
...route, moreover, saves you from sitting through several slow stretches of plot sludge. During these scenes, Clueless has the feel of some mild sitcom purring in a far corner of the living room. You don't watch it so much as notice it, from time to time, in a genial miasma...