Word: gentlemanly
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...Wingfield is no hero, no magician, no businessman. Tom is no writer; he has little save a cigarette. But, what he does have is a story: there was Laura, the painfully shy sister; Amanda, the worried mother; Jim, the gentleman caller; and there was Tom. Tom Wingfield has his memory...
...It’s a beautiful, bittersweet story. In its simplicity, it’s more touching—a play about the dynamics between a somewhat overbearing but loving mother and her son and daughter, and their interaction with the appearance of the much-awaited gentleman caller,” director Megan E. O’Keefe ’11 says. “Their problems, when reduced, are just about meeting expectations and failing those expectations. And that is similar...
...Theirs is a classic Odd Couple/Lethal Weapon action-movie male pairing: lunatic meets gentleman, torrential rain of bullets follows. In between bouts of slaughtering dozens of people on the grounds that they appear to be of Asian or Middle Eastern descent, Charlie teases James. He mocks James's fondness for chess with the put-down "Do I look like I play board games?" He calls his new partner "pard," which is intended to make fun of the dorkiness of people who call each other "pard," but instead just makes Charlie seem dorky. He tosses dead bodies down the world...
...Here he agreeably inhabits his character even as he somehow stands outside the film, fixing it with the same skeptical eye Declan focuses on Anna. "The countryside's pretty and the pay's OK," Goode's attitude seems to say, "and it's not my disaster." Welcome another gentleman Brit to possible leading-man status in Hollywood. Everyone else involved should redact Leap Year from...
...have waned with time, religious fervor taking its place, according to friends. "Farouk was a devoted Muslim who took his religion seriously and was a committed student," Alfred told TIME. "Some people call him ustaz [Arabic for teacher], others call him alfa [Muslim scholar], but he is a complete gentleman." Alfred says that the banker's son took seriously the Islamic recommendation for prayer five times a day. The son was also known for his strong views on the U.S. and Israel. According to a source close to the family, it was an alleged threat to blow up an American...