Word: homeyness
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...each day's shooting, improvising enthusiastically to illustrate his ideas. By turns charming and cruel, shrewd and funny, Amin credits his popularity to his sincerity. "I always speak the truth," he said. Already a hit in Paris, Autoportrait, which opens in two London cinemas this week, includes a homey note. Posing with seven of his 18 children, the general chortles: "I'm a very good marksman...
...massive heart attack following contraction of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ("Lou Gehrig's disease"); in Manhattan. Boyle joined the A.P. as a copy boy in Kansas City in 1928, advanced to editor and foreign correspondent and won the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for his war dispatches from Europe. His homey, highly personal column was born in Italy in 1943, when he began reporting the experiences of G.I.s at the front. After the war Boyle became a constant traveler, filing stories with datelines from 66 countries on six continents. All told, he wrote nearly 8,000 columns...
...actual footwork--for example, the middle-aged fellow who for 20 years had flown all over the world with Graham to organize local counseling programs to supplement Graham's message. In striking contrast to the sophisticated, glamorous, powerful men at the top, they are homey, plodding yes-men; they do drudge work; they carry pamphlets detailing The Way; they stutter and stare blankly when asked questions that aren't in the pamphlets. They are the peddlers. The glamorous leaders are the front men. And Billy Graham is their product--a very marketable product...
Graham's workers are homey, plodding yes-men; they do drudge work; they carry pamphlets detailing The Way; they stutter when asked questions that aren't in the pamphlets. They are the peddlers and Billy Graham is their product--a very marketable product...
When things get messed up on this scale, the real trouble is rooted in the initial conception of a show. Molly obviously hoped to capitalize on the large Jewish theatergoing audience in the New York area by offering that audience homey ethnic humor. While ethnic humor is indestructible, it goes through varying phases. The cozy gemütlich atmosphere that originally made Molly Goldberg a household charmer is simply not in the air we breathe now. The current vogue in Jewish humor is pinpointed in the astringent, highly self-conscious comic imagination of a Philip Roth. Better they should have...