Word: genteelism
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...their nine "livability" criteria. Data about climate, housing, health care, crime, transportation, education, culture, recreation and economics are now weighted by such qualities as "fortunate circumstances of geography" and "outdoor recreational assets." Third-ranked Raleigh-Durham, N.C., moved up from ninth place, for instance, partly because it is "a genteel place to live." Atlanta, 1981's top city, fell to eleventh place, hurt by conditions at its zoo. Washington, second in 1981, slipped in rank to 15th, while the metropolitan Greensboro, N.C., area dived from third to 41st...
...sleaze, where every black soul gleams like Bakelite. In the Rodeo Drive boutiques, Iranian thugs and their bimbos are served champagne and caviar. Diana's brother (Bruce McGill) dresses himself and his apartment in Elvis memorabilia and drives a white Caddy bearing the legend THE KING LIVES. A shabby-genteel Brit (David Bowie) eases his gun into Ed's mouth--in front of Tiffany--and purrs, "I like you, Ed." A rancid TV producer (Paul Mazursky) asks his girlfriend (Kathryn Harrold) to play kinky games with him: "Oblige me. I'm gonna put this on video...
...American cultural wilderness, bound by our understanding that only the SCHOLARLY LIFE was truly worth living. Our communal joy was that of arcane disputation: though of many minds, we were of one mind on the superior virtue of living the LIFE OF THE MIND. We shared, too, genteel contempt for athletes, fraternity men, sorority women, newshawks, campus pols--any whose central (or peripheral) interests were other than THE GOOD. THE TRUE, and THE BEAUTIFUL. Few such were to be found at Chicago...
...welfare over to Olive. She spirits the girl away to Beacon Hill, and away from all the distractions that could affect an impressionable young woman of that age. Olive's fear for Verena's "impurity" is a fear of everything outside the narrow Suffragist circle of dedicated ladies and genteel performs...
...Beacon Hill, Harvard, and Martha's Vineyard, it is so consistently picturesque you almost expect to see Whistler's name in the credits. The main problem with Ivory's Europeans were the Europeans themselves, who were about as scandalous as an invasion of nannies. The Bostonians, thankfully, sheds the genteel anemia of its precursor. Prawer Jhabvala's screenplay, and the memorable cast--Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Reeve, Linda Hunt and Madeleine Potter--are responsible for the success...