Word: mellower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, McGee is a man of honor and some sentiment who can be gentle or brutal, angry or mellow as the occasion demands. Taylor, an enormously skillful actor, seems to have a special understanding of parts like this, and Suzy Kendall brings to her role exactly the right look of soiled innocence. The two villains of the piece, freaky faggots named Griff (Robert Phillips) and Terry (William Smith), provide some of the nastiest screen violence so far this year. There's a brawl toward the end of the picture between McGee...
...appreciate the time you gave to us to learn the words. I absorbed them like a mellow strawberry...
Though many believe that age accentuates personality characteristics, Dr. Butler notes that "certain personality features mellow or entirely disappear. Others prove insulating and protective, although they might formerly have been impairing, such as a schizoid disposition." Some doctors suggest that neuroses and some psychoses burn themselves out with age, and note that the rate of mental disorders declines after...
Despite the mellow tone, there were still traces of the old bitterness, the craving for sympathy. In his only show of anger, L.B.J. charged that some of the holdovers from the Kennedy days "undermined [Johnson's] Administration, and bored from within to create problems for us, and leaked information that was slanted and things of that nature." He said he did not know if there was any anti-Johnson "cult," or if it had been led by Robert Kennedy. Who were the villains? Johnson would not say. Presumably they were members of the White House staff rather than...
Even now, when Robby has begun to mellow after four years of making things interesting for people, he still feels that old lust for the unusual. So last winter, invited to be Wesleyan's basketball mascot, with carte blanche to put on his own halftime show, Bordley was waiting in the passageway just before time ran out in the second quarter-Nude...