Word: mulish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, speaking of his opposition. In Wilbur Mills's case, the price came high: $6 billion sliced from the proposed 1968-69 federal budget of $186 billion. Not a cent less, insists the flinty House Ways and Means Committee chairman, will coax a mulish Congress to stomach a 10% surcharge on personal and corporate income taxes in an election year...
Three times nominated for Academy Awards, Steiger is the current favorite to win this year's Oscar for best male actor on the strength of his performance as the mulish redneck sheriff of In the Heat of the Night. It was a job of acting marked by a craftsman's meticulous attention to detail: the assured swagger of the small-town cop who knows he is The Law, the wobbly waddle in the sun that evokes languidity induced by oppressive heat. To achieve the effect, Steiger relied on his standard technique: total immersion. "I've never seen...
...Appaloosa. When two strong men stake their claims to a strumpet and a stallion, the enmity between them can be the stuff that fleshes out the bony structure of the very best westerns. But in this film, a mulish scenario puts a frustrating checkrein on the excitement, and it is slim pickings for Marlon Brando, playing a saddle tramp whose dream is to become a horse breeder, and John Saxon, portraying a Mexican bandit chieftain who has a girl (Anjanette Comer) up for grabs in his lair...
Second-Story Man. A massive (6 ft. 4 in., 245 Ibs.), mellow Midwesterner, Mollenhoff displays none of the mulish tenacity in private that characterizes him in public, where he never takes "uh" for an answer. Last March his sniping finally got to McNamara. Angrily, the Defense Secretary asked Mollenhoff to leave a press conference, noting that he had already asked three questions. "You dodged three times," replied the uncowed Mollenhoff. "You seem to dodge everything, Mr. Secretary." Exploded McNamara: "I unfortunately haven't been able to dodge all the rocks you have thrown at me for five years." Three...
...Lieut. General Camilo Alonso Vega, 76, Minister of the Interior and police boss. Known as "Don Ca-mulo" because of his mulish resistance to change, the white-haired former commander of the Guardia Civil is Franco's strong right arm. He can be counted on to put down trouble wherever it breaks...