Word: geniality
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...takes a little more than genial health for Cole to go on to obliterate his Central Connecticut opponent...
...have another misty, nostalgic baseball book to wedge onto a crowded and highly literary shelf. Didn't any skinny kids with library cards go bowling, years ago? But never mind. This genial and shaggily told first novel is not only one of the most artful fictions of the past couple of seasons but also one of the most beguiling stories, which are not always the same thing...
...Lange (who gives a smart, sturdy performance) to face the truth. Nor do they allow Laszlo a chance to justify, however speciously, his rancid past. They are content to dwell on the sins of the fathers, in which humanism stares at bestiality across the generation gap. Even in a genial mood, Laszlo sounds like a Nazi: "A healthy body makes a healthy spirit," he huffs as he completes a maniacal regimen of push-ups. Ann's father-in-law (Donald Moffat), who helped relocate Nazis as a CIA agent after the war, is no more enlightened. He derides the Holocaust...
Love Letters (1989). Sly and genial chronicler of Wasp foibles in The Dining Room and The Cocktail Hour, A.R. Gurney went for gut emotion in this story of a half-century relationship told solely in letters. Weekly changes of cast (Jason Robards, Colleen Dewhurst, Swoosie Kurtz, Richard Thomas) demonstrate, despite individual triumphs, that the play's the thing...
...President Daniel Ortega and Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo sat down for a 90-minute chat last week, the two men, frequent antagonists in the past, were uncommonly genial. So when Ortega requested that Obando go to Washington and ask the Bush Administration for direct talks between the two countries, the Cardinal promised to think it over...