Word: gruffness
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Detroit is normally a lifeless town with about 5 million people in the metropolitan area. We can't hide that were gruff, gritty, and wholly without class. At noontime, downtown workers here form a sea of polyester. And in the evening, Detroit evolves into a sea of nothingness...
...gruff-voiced Karnow, who began reporting from Southeast Asia in 1959 for Time and Life, makes a point of not capitalizing on isolationist sentiment aroused by Vietnam, though he understands that much of the interest among college-age students stems from just such a concern...
...Vlad the Impaler, a performer with a wide appeal but a narrow range, whose talent could ignite television sketches but was quickly being tapped out in movies. He did not have the generative comic gifts of an Albert Brooks, say, or an Andy Kaufman, but he had a gruff, tough persona that exuded phantom wisps of tenderness and set him quite apart. He was the most intriguing of the Saturday Night troupe even as he was demolishing a set with his samurai sword or gobbling up the scenery in impersonations that ran the gamut from Kissinger to Brando to Jake...
...THINK MUSICAL COMEDY. . .the most glorious words in the English language," crows Julian Marsh, the gruff but gentle caricature of a Broadway producer in 42nd Street. Believing that one of the most entertaining subjects to be made into musical theater is musical theater itself. David Merrick (a real-life Julian Marsh) has taken a 1930s musical, wrapped it in extravagant sets and costumes, revitalized extensive tap-dancing routines for the familiar score, and recreated what he modestly calls "the song and dance fable of Broadway." Indeed, Merrick has brought back the old-style high-kicking Broadway musical of elaborate production...
...station emerge a gruff man, probably the caretaker, and his toothless wife, whose single braid dangles two feet below the point of her kerchief. Also a daughter, her rosy face alight with mischief, and two dogs nearly as white as the snow. The man has the look of a lighthouse keeper whose island of solitude is being turned into a marina...