Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...daunting one: to create a character, the Magic Carpet, literally out of whole cloth. The Carpet has no head, no voice, and mere tassels for hands and feet. Yet it has a personality that puts most live- action stars to shame. It can mope, strut, cringe. It is a gentleman and a matchmaker. It holds and kisses Jasmine's hand. It makes zigzag stairs of itself at the end of Aladdin's ride with Jasmine and, as she stands on her balcony, coaxes the lad up to kissing level with the princess. "He's very sensitive," says Cartwright, "and always...
...million weekly supply bill at least 20%. To do that, Lopez has been jeopardizing GM's long-term relations with its partners by demanding that they constantly resubmit their bids. At the same time, GM has been dragging its heels when paying bills. "GM's reputation as a gentleman in the industry is disappearing very quickly," says a leading supplier. "It's sad to see what's happening...
Edmond Fischer, 72, and Edwin Krebs, 74, a scientific team for nearly 40 years, both emeritus professors at the University of Washington in Seattle; a colleague described them as "quintessential gentleman scholars." They were honored for their discovery in the 1950s of a mechanism cells use to regulate a range of metabolic processes. "We stumbled on it," said Fischer. The mechanism, reversible protein phosphorylation, a key to maintaining life in cells, has paved the way for research into cellular phenomena and diseases. Said the citation: "Their fundamental finding initiated a research area which today is one of the most active...
Nick Gomez is no bullshitter, but then he's no gentleman either...
...make remarkably rich use of a nearly bare stage. Ann Crumb, who starred in Aspects of Love in London and on Broadway, makes modest Anna's eruption into passion completely believable and is deeply affecting in her final derangement. Surrounding her are exceptional men: Gregg Edelman as the hapless gentleman farmer Levin, Scott Wentworth as a reckless but wholly admirable version of Vronsky and, most striking, John Cunningham, who overcomes caricatured writing of Anna's estranged husband to reveal a man poignantly wrongheaded and, in his way, as doomed as his desperate spouse...