Word: genially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MALICE AND AMBITION do not adhere to Alan Alda's face. Alda the screenwriter forgot that Alda the actor looks like a waiter in Chinatown begging for a big tip--his squinting, ever-genial countenance belies the selfish, insatiable drive that defines his hero, Senator-on-the-make Joe Tynan. The words of the screenplay may fit, but Alda can't take up the Nice Man's Burden: Hawkeye can't play Macbeth...
Though success still eluded Harvard, the batsmen ended their fractious ways under the leadership of genial rookie coach Alex Nahigian. Mark Bingham and Mike Stenhouse took one-two in GBL batting and senior hurler Tim Clifford finished second on the Eastern League pitching roster...
...Lieutenant Governor, after announcing his support for the split primary, went beyond his usual genial role as presiding officer of the senate and began lobbying actively for the bill. When prospects for passage continued to look bleak, Hobby tried to slip the measure past the Bees by bringing up an innocuous election funding bill that, he figured, could be amended to provide for the dual primary. When Hobby called up the funding bill, the Killer Bees struck...
Baker's writing voice still darkens easily, though not often, from genial irony to grim satire. Every few weeks a sour mood fills the "Observer," as it did some time ago when Baker discussed the advantages of a return to public hangings, with the additional suggestion that if the society went back to killing people for the crime of murder, perhaps it should again cut off hands for theft and notch the noses of incurable double parkers...
...tailor in Piacenza in Northern Italy, Casaroli began studies for the priesthood at 14, and has spent his entire career in the Secretariat of State. Vatican prelates expect his genial, flexible style to balance that of the tough, demanding Pole. Remarks one: "John Paul would tell you to jump out of the window. Casaroli will persuade you to do so after an hour's talk...