Word: joviality
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...part, but she is too much of a trouper not to do it beautifully. Nancy Marchand is as flinty as the Maine coast. As a visiting fellow teacher, Rae Allen is a delightful vulgarian, and lard would not melt in her mouth. Top honors go to Estelle Parsons, caustically jovial, slapping her consonants with the back of her tongue, and looping about her housely chores while knocking back the gin and nibbling raw hamburger hidden in a Fanny Farmer box. Vote her the girl you would most like to go on a bender with...
Unbreakable Bond. It took a sturdy temperament to defy Joseph Stalin, and Vladimir Dedijer, now 57, well exemplifies it. A strapping, jovial Serbian, he is in the U.S. this year, tranquilly teaching a course called "Heresy and Dissent" at Brandeis University. But he lived through years of almost inhuman warfare as a Tito partisan in World War II, and still suffers searing headaches from a near fatal war wound. "When my head hurts," the otherwise generous Dedijer admits, "I hate all Germans, including Marx and Goethe...
Worst about the film is its view of work in a factory situation: it resembles the buddy-buddy army of Hollywood's World War II. There is jovial scowling at work details, the obligatory lunchroom ogling of a big-bosomed French wench. There is no mention of union work or political organizing. There is little manager-inspired tension, or sense of monotony and ennui in the work processes...
...stationery store cash registers will ring up U.S. sales of $300 million this Christmas−glad tidings to about 200 card companies. Like the automakers, the card publishers alter their models annually. Some cards now laud the joys of grass−not the kind that suburbanites mow. Others pay jovial tribute to Women's Lib: YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS AND FOR ONE THING SHE IS FAT. The themes of "love" and "youth"−perhaps as an indirect tribute to Mr. Agnew−have replaced "peace" as the most prevalent messages this year. But most cards...
...Brandt got his first long close-up view of Leonid Brezhnev, whose presence was a sign of the great significance the Soviets placed on the treaty. While Kosygin did the signing as the Soviet head of government, Party Chief Brezhnev hovered over the proceedings, grinning broadly and appearing ostentatiously jovial. Afterward, he even lingered behind, waving and clowning for photographers. Unexpectedly, Brezhnev invited Brandt to a private chat later that afternoon. The two men talked for almost four hours, with only interpreters present. The contents of the discussion were not announced, but the talk lasted so long that Brandt...