Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interview, Koestenbaum is genial, affable and frank. He suggest, as does the subtitle of his book, that one of the primary motivations for writing The Queen's Throat is a "desire to explain desire,". And indeed, the book is liberally sprinkled with personal anecdotes that serve to illustrate the many-faceted sensual appeal of the opera world. These range from the visual (such as Joan Sutherland's misaligned and garish lipstick on an album cover or the combination of Renata Tebaldi's ample bosom and her tight costume on the over of Aida) to the aural (Marilyn Horne singing...
...Summer House isn't really a funny movie, though it is often wry, sometimes wise and generally genial. It is, more than anything, a rather sober meditation on life's tendency to disappoint. "I had hoped to die young," says Lili (Jeanne Moreau), "but now it's too late." Scarves aflutter, jewelry ajangle, her hair aflame with henna, she has just breezed in from Egypt and a past everyone once shared along the Nile. She copes by constant movement, outrageous talk and copious quantities of alcohol and tobacco. Monica (Julie Walters), the divorced mother of the bride, is all domestic...
With the White House awash in Whitewater, Clinton reveled in his chance to conquer new worlds, to prove that a self-described "domestic" President could hold his own in the complex realm of international politics. He brought his genial man-of-the-people act to the streets of Brussels, Prague, Moscow and Minsk, even as he tackled economic and security issues from Russia to Bosnia with wonkish concentration. Boasting of breakthroughs on Ukrainian nuclear arms and the detargeting of Russian missiles, Clinton proclaimed his trip a success. Said a senior official traveling with the President: "We absolutely did everything...
Hanks' Andy is a wonderful fellow: chipper, supremely competent, lavishing genial respect on colleagues high and low. He also seems a good subject for a sensibly daring film about AIDS. And for its first hour, Philadelphia is a pretty fine social comedy about private pain; it lays out the dilemma with a grace almost worthy of Hanks' bravely understated playing. But then it becomes % much too timid. It says that the death threat hanging over gays commands our sympathy for them. It renounces character shadings for easy good guys (Andy's huge family, each one of them amazingly accepting...
...together, but I doubt his job was ever out to bid. A replacement who worked just as hard for less might seem cost-effective, but actually cost the paper more in lost time because he or she lacked Pat's skills, knowledge, familiarity with The Crimson, and famous genial personality (not to mention fragrant stogies...