Word: geniality
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Consequently, Motherwell, despite his genial behavior and his look of a rumpled, adipose bear prodded from hibernation, remains the stone guest at the festivities of American art, reminding the partygoers that modernism did not begin and will not end in New York. "Every intelligent painter," he wrote in 1951, "carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints is both an homage and a critique, and everything he says a gloss...
...longer have grease in their hair-if they have hair at all. Elvis, however, still sounds and looks almost like 1957. His hair, to be sure, is a little less shiny, and the famous Presley pout, an expression of his nearly platonic narcissism, has been replaced by the genial smile of acceptance and affluence. After 32 movies and untold millions in box-office receipts and record sales, Elvis at 37 is in many ways bigger than ever...
...tells Wilson. "At the middle of the day when the sun stops in the top of the sky, my grand-father would not speak because then God says the names of the sinners, and my grand-father would hear." The rapport between Tushim and Wilson gives the novel a genial immediacy, spiced by curiosity about each other's personal life. ("'In your country in the night,'" Tushim asks the novelist," 'how many times does a man work it with his wife?'") The dialogue between the two storytellers is allowed to intrude much as the pipes in a building by LeCorbusier...
This is a genial, laconic account of the road back from disaster. Six years ago, when he was 51, Tex Maule, a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED editor, had a massive heart attack. He almost died then and there, mainly because he stumbled out of bed rather than accept a bedpan and crashed into his own oxygen supply...
...University of Maryland, Governor Marvin Mandel called out the National Guard to enforce a curfew after students repeatedly blocked U.S. 1. Last weekend in New York, 50,000 marchers?some from as far away as Nebraska?demonstrated in the rain against the bombing. Much of the protest was genial, even languid, but there were incidents of violence. In Palo Alto, Calif., hard by Stanford University, police made 210 arrests after some rock throwing along El Camino Real, a major highway. In Detroit, 15 out of some 250 sit-in demonstrators were arrested at the Federal Building. The drawdown...