Word: gunga
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Like few other Hollywood directors, this one embraced multitudes: Gunga Din and James Dean, Cary Grant and Anne Frank. Exploiting the movies' passion for teamwork, he wrote gags for Laurel and Hardy, struck the first sparks for Tracy and Hepburn, directed Fred and Ginger in their most sublime pas de deux (Never Gonna Dance, from Swing Time). And yet, in Alice Adams, A Place in the Sun and Giant, he displayed an affinity for ambitious outsiders with their noses pressed against the frosted window of the American dream. Maddeningly meticulous, he could earn a laugh by simply waiting...
...snatches of contemporaneous news footage. These black-and-white bulletins from the front trumpet the glory of the Empire in all its turbaned pomp, while providing hearty reports on wartime developments in the Asian theater. But the newsreels also serve a subtler purpose. Through their gung-ho descriptions of Gunga Din's descendants they present, unvarnished, Britain's official stance toward its colonies, a paternalism compounded of arrogance and affection...
...maybe you imagine the notorious antics of arch villains like Gorgeous George, the Amazing Gunga and Killer Kowalski. Hey, you've been watching too much late night t.v., and you've got wrestling all wrong...
...Naturally one is reminded of the old story about the dog chasing cars -what do they do if they catch one? Wrestle him to the ground? Drag him off to the hoosegow?" Shales ridiculed Dan Rather's histrionic foray into Afghanistan last year for 60 Minutes, dubbing him "Gunga Dan," and noting that Rather's peasant garb "made him look like an extra out of Dr. Zhivago." Some viewers still cannot tune in ABC's Good Morning America Host David Hartman without thinking of Shales' tag for him: "Mr. Potato Head." The names stick. Just...
...like a cross between one of Edward R. Murrow's World War II This ...Is London radio broadcasts and the hushed commentary from the 18th hole of the U.S. Open. Rather tried to blend in with the rebels, but Washington Post Television Critic Tom Shales, who dubbed him "Gunga Dan," observed: "A $50 haircut still looks like a $50 haircut-even when mussed up a little." Rather says wryly that his haircuts, in fact, cost just...