Word: gruffness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...election evening, Howard Jarvis denied that he was vengeful. "Tonight was a victory against money, the politicians, the government," said the gruff, tireless campaigner as he sagged into an easy chair in an eleventh-floor suite at Los Angeles' Biltmore Hotel. "Government simply must be limited. Excessive taxation leads to either bankruptcy or dictatorship...
...Charley Nichols (Walter Matthau) is a gruff but adorable middle-aged widower who wants to score with every young woman he can find. Ann Atkinson (Glenda Jackson) is a wisecracking but adorable divorcee who wants to find a monogamous man and live happily ever after. House Calls is the story of this odd couple's on-again, off-again, on-again romance, and it wants very much to be a Neil Simon comedy. It doesn't succeed, but there are times when this amiable film could pass as a Plaza Suite, or even a Chapter Two, clone...
Konrad and Maywald each play a number of mini-parts. Konrad, always interesting, is at times inaccurate in his characterization. As Joe Williams, the gruff, cynical workingman who carries with him a good deal of class resentment, Konrad speaks with too much kindness and pathos. In other roles he is both funny and on-target; his portrayal of Bingham, the elderly businessman with a penchant for health foods and naked women comes across particularly well. Maywald turns in the evening's most impressive performance, handling a wider range of roles than anyone else in the play. In her brief part...
...seeing Chambers by mid-1936?about 18 months before the period when Chambers claimed to have received secret documents from him. But in interviews with Hiss and one of his lawyers, Weinstein learned that Pediatrician Margaret Nicholson recalled for the Hiss defense team that she encountered a heavyset, "very gruff man" at the Hiss home in January 1937. "You may not come in!" declared the man. Writes Weinstein: "From newspaper photographs in 1949, Dr. Nicholson recognized the man who had answered the door as Whittaker Chambers...
...album that not only earned critical praise but became the bestselling album of the year. Jimmy Buffett: Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes (ABC). Countrified Caribbean and laid-back Southern rock blended together like a well-mixed Margarita. Waylon Jennings: Ol' Waylon (RCA). Country music's amiably gruff outlaw puts heart into honky-tonk-and Luckenbach, Texas, squarely on the map. The Phil Woods Six (RCA, 2 LPs). A master saxman and his friends hotfinger their way through familiar jazz standards and lively originals. James Taylor: JT (Columbia). Sweet Baby James shows the old homespun ease and comes...