Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amid all the praise for the nondrinking, nonsmoking Governor, a gentleman aboard from the Louisiana press decided that the cocktails all save Edwards were enjoying could use some sour grapes. He mentioned that the Governor had come close to being indicted several times. To this sort of talk, the Governor has answered, "People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors but I've never had brushes with...
with whom he composed the sexy syncopations of New York ! You on Mariel. It pleases him still to call himself "a tropical gentleman." and there is a neat kind of hipster fitness to the description. Although he makes periodic pilgrimages to Miami for sunshine and real Cuban black beans, he has himself brought more than a measure of musical heat to his own chilly adopted city, and to a very cool scene. -By Jay Cocks. Reported by Mary Ann French/New York
...around Harvard Square on his shoulders a few years ago. No one was exactly sure why he did this. It had something to do with the imminent destruction of humanity and our responsibility to care for the earth. All of this talk about nuclear disaster had apparently scared the gentleman into such a rage that he decided to bear singlehandedly the full burden, so to speak, of our survival...
...production is graced with two splendid actresses in two splendid roles; each falls just short. As Laura, Amanda Plummer spends the first act in pained watchfulness, mothering her collection of glass animals, nursing herself toward psychosis. She comes to life in her scenes with gentleman Jim (John Heard, in a brisk and engaging performance). "Somebody ought to-Ought to-kiss you, Laura!" Jim proclaims. As he leans in and embraces her, Laura surrenders her body and mouth to him, but not yet her wavering right arm. The hand pauses in midair, uncertain whether or how to commit, then grasps firmly...
...first great cracked Southern belle. A generation too old for the part, she strides through the play on the assurance of her craft. Tandy's Amanda is flinty, not flighty; a hawk, not a dithery dove; a bustling den mother, not a senescent teenager who treats the gentleman caller to some of her own old-fashioned wooing. Williams' characters may not be as fragile as Laura's menagerie, but they deserve to be handled with care. Tandy's hand, like that of the production, is pure wrought iron. -By Richard Corliss