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...found that he goes through cycles of depression, then rises again with humor and a basic faith in the system. Sometimes the hearings go on into the night. At the dinner break he gets into a car with an aide and they put the windows down and drive through mellow Washington nights talking about it all, stop for Colonel Sanders chicken and root beer, hurry back to the hearing. When it is over, Mezvinsky rushes away from reporters and home to be alone with his ideas. His sleep is fitful. Often he will awake with an idea...
...system of delay and deliberation. So, for that matter, is the creation of a great painting, or an entree, or a book, or a building like Blenheim Palace, which took the Duke of Marlborough's architects and laborers 15 years to construct. In the process, the design can mellow and marinate. Indeed, hurry can be the assassin of elegance. As T.H. White, author of Sword in the Stone, once wrote, time "is not meant to be devoured in an hour or a day, but to be consumed delicately and gradually and without haste." In other words, pace Lord Chesterfield...
...would be hard to ask of a movie much more than is given here: songs, laughter, a bit of heartbreak and melancholy, a mellow spirit and some gentle insight. All of it is accomplished, as well, with the openness and warmth characteristic of the work of Jean Renoir, a kind of humble Olympian in world cinema...
...history. Admittedly, dignity sits easy on the shoulders of the old and weathered, and the story that predates this picture is a horrible one, but Lipscomb's community transmits here the transcendent vision that Erikson must have meant when he talked about "integrity." A Jack Daniels movie--pure, mellow and lulling, making you remember as it makes you forget...
...York City carpenter, started off on a bottle of Canadian whisky from the family liquor cabinet when he was twelve, and from that moment would drink whatever and whenever he could. "If it was beer, I laughed a lot. If it was wine, I would get very mellow. If it was whisky, I was sure to go wild and get into a fight...