Word: gruffness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the back of a station wagon. The beer cooler goes in the shade by the hangar. "Yes, we've been having these for years now. Used to be there was more interest, more people turn out. But it'll be all right, you'll see." His manner is gruff but friendly; everyone here seems to know...
...flame widens, voice-over narration accompanies a dramatic juxtaposition of images and objects to conjure up for the viewer a reckless driver, an unconcerned citizen littering a street, a man confronted by a bottle-laden table who declares, "One more won't hurt," and another man's gruff refusal to sign a petition to fight pollution. After the map is burned totally black, a wind begins to scatter the ashes and a deep, doom-ridden voice warns: "Great civilizations decay from within. But it's up to you. Will history repeat itself?" This apocalyptic message...
While dean of the Faculty from 1970 to 1973, Dunlop personally supervised over 40 departmental budgets and drew up the preliminary goals for Harvard's affirmative action plan. He was known for his gruff tone and earthy...
Herbie's commentary went uninterrupted. He was unphased even by the gruff voice of an old gent who bluntly turned to the commentator and said firmly, "Keep it to yourself...
...needs more than this, which The Last Detail seems to realize. Even as the old salts befriend the prisoner, take off his handcuffs and teach him to be tough and manly, they can't reach him. The klepto is too used to stealing affection and cowering with it: the gruff backslaps only make him smile a dreamy and faraway gulp that's almost the choke of a sob. Randy Quaid's performance catches the whippedcur look perfectly, shoulders hunched and forlorn...