Word: geniality
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...other hand, it is not much fun. Though Elizabeth Edmonds could not be sweeter in the leading role, and everyone around her is genial enough, the movie does not quite deserve its promotional association with such predecessors as Gregory's Girl and Local Hero. For it lacks the wayward exuberance and quirkiness of those small delights. No inexplicable motorcyclist or man in a penguin suit is permitted to wander through Director Duffell's tidy frames. Nor are any brief, enlivening emotional squalls that might stir up those placid waters. The result is rather like a nice...
DIED. Terence Cardinal Cooke, 62, Archbishop of New York; of acute myelomonoblastic leukemia; in New York City. The genial, owlish New York native succeeded his mentor, the commanding Francis Cardinal Spellman, and quickly adopted a more conciliatory managerial style, in keeping with the decentralizing principles of Vatican II. An anti-Communist who served as military vicar to the U.S. armed services' 2 million Roman Catholics, the Cardinal last year abandoned his usual quiet role among fellow prelates to oppose the majority of American bishops in their call for nuclear disarmament. Cooke used the occasion of his approaching death...
With characteristic self-mockery, the Beatles are proclaiming that they have snuffed out their old selves to make room for the new Beatles incarnate. And there is some truth to it. Without having lost any of the genial anarchism with which they helped revolutionize the life style of young people in Britain, Europe and the U.S., they have moved on to a higher artistic plateau...
...Rick Springfield. As a conversationalist he can be gently witty, without Letterman's sting or Carson's quickness. "I'm cool in the McLuhan sense," he says. Describing himself as an Everyman, he is uncomfortable with the label of comic: "I'd rather be the genial host at the party...
...certain class and ambition. Savoir-faire meant the aristocracy of style: which wine to decant, which brand of cigarette to smoke, which automatic weapon to carry under the armpit. Now that he was Roger Moore, 20 years later, Bond had degenerated into a male model, and something of a genial anachronism...