Word: gentlemanly
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...aides refused a request that U.S. stewards watch over preparation of the President's food. Other hosts were miffed too. In Rome, Spadolini was kept by U.S. security men from going through the tight cordon outside the Palazzo Chigi until Italian police could finally inform them that the gentleman they were holding up from a meeting with Reagan was the Prime Minister of Italy. In Bonn, U.S. security men annoyed the Germans by insisting on inspecting the carbines of an honor guard welcoming Reagan to make sure the guns were not loaded. The security obsession was not confined...
...dreary staircase to some cold, terrifying gym. He did not rush to the climb. "Boxing wasn't my dream," he says. "It was just a sport to me." To his father it was something more. Gerry enjoys likening the Cooneys to the Corbetts in the old Errol Flynn movie Gentleman Jim, and he approves of the nickname "Gentleman Gerry." Had Ward Bond portrayed the father, that would have been Tony Cooney. But Bond played John L. Sullivan...
Painfully within memory, several graduations back, a marked gunman robbed Cambridge Trust single handedly during Commencement exercises. "I thought that unusual be use of the extra police officers. Moe says, "As far as I know the gentleman made a clean getaway...
...Enrique Ros, with whom he is dealing, were not only fellow South Americans and diplomatic neighbors but longtime personal friends as well. Pérez de Cuéllar told TIME's Louis Halasz: "I thought that perhaps at some stage British public opinion would say, 'This gentleman is from South America and he might tilt toward the Argentines.' But I must say the British government has always given me its full support and expressed its full confidence in me." The British have indeed: reporting to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on his talks, U.N. Ambassador Sir Anthony...
...Marvin Chomsky (Roots; Holocaust; My Body, My Child) has usually been willing to sacrifice pace for performance. This time the tempo of fascism has given his film a compelling rhythm, and a company of distinguished actors has lent it an elegant tone. Gielgud is haughtily endearing, a stiff-collared gentleman who speaks in the cadences of Schiller and dreams in the images of Goethe. Robert Vaughn displays a flinty decency as Field Marshal Milch, who probes surgically for Speer's conscience, or at least his common sense. As Hitler, Jacobi spellbinds-first with the ingratiating gifts of the born...