Word: matter-of-fact
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...sung, ad infinitum, to the tune of Onward Christian Soldiers. This play features a potty old retired general (Ralph Richardson), whose thought processes seem to have stopped around World War I, and his spry-spirited wife (Peggy Ashcroft). She is resisting progress in another way by making calm, matter-of-fact preparations to commit suicide if the government bulldozes a throughway across the baronial estate. It doesn't and she doesn't. This asthmatic little item would wheeze its way into oblivion but for the robust first aid continually administered by those seasoned troupers, Richardson and Ashcroft...
...rubles, and exclaimed "I am in business!" Brezhnev's point: the U.S. and the Soviets should not strike a trade bargain merely for the sake of making a deal, but should try large-scale ventures that would yield solid profit to both. Later, the usually matter-of-fact Peterson quoted a rather lyrical Alexander Hamilton remark that "the spirit of commerce has a tendency to soften the manners of men and to extinguish those inflammable humors which have so often kindled wars...
...from the other characters, who frequently call them by name--either Niles or Holland--the "bad" twin and the "good" twin are easily distinguished. The Udvarnokys play the twins with amazing unselfconsciousness. They consider themselves people, not cute objects-to-be-admired (as actors or as children). Their matter-of-fact acceptance of the increasingly frightening world around them contrasts with the histrionics of their grandmother (Uta Hagen). Many critics have complained of her overacting, but I liked both the role (which must be credited to novel-and-scriptwriter Tom Tryon) and her portrayal of it. She represents the ancient...
...Haight-Ashbury district from a plush San Francisco suburb, where Mom smothered him with heaping portions of maternal concern. A guitarist and songwriter, he is anxious to make it on his own, maybe put together a nightclub act. Everyone is impressed with his songs and with his matter-of-fact courage about his handicap. "You're a beautiful person, inside and out," gushes the girl next door, who rapidly graduates to roommate status...
...protracted striptease. Nonetheless, the room was jammed with 17 movie and television cameras and dozens of reporters. It was a testimony of press interest in the mayor and, to his enemies, a confirmation of their charge that he is a creation of the media. In soft, matter-of-fact tones, Lindsay delivered a seven-minute recitation of his differences with the G.O.P. on issues and ideology. "In a sense," he began, "this step recognizes the failure of 20 years in progressive Republican politics...