Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pontiac, where he spoke that night in a grade-school gymnasium. When his speech was over, he hustled outside. There, with the moonbeams filtering down through the elms, he stood for nearly an hour; in that time he shook some 470 hands. To one man he commented: "What a nice sweater." Spotting a G.O.P. precinct worker, he said: "You're doing a grand job." A middle-aged woman got a "You sure look good tonight, ma'am," and a toothless oldster got a "Hi, young fella." A man asked: "They treating you rough, Joe?" Replied Meek...
Marlon conceded that "when I came to Hollywood I had a rather precious and coddled attitude about my own integrity. It was stupid of me to resist so directly the prejudice that money is right. But just because the big shots were nice to me I saw no reason to overlook what they did to others and to ignore the fact that they normally behave with the hostility of ants at a picnic. The marvelous thing about Hollywood is that these people are recognized as sort of the norm, while I am the flip. These gnarled and twisted personalities...
...personal as well as professional problems, or so the Slob stuff would indicate. But since his mother's death last year, he seems to have taken a firmer grip on his private life. There is less talk of a two-year trip around the world or "a nice long school in Paris," or a quick retirement to his Nebraska cattle farm, which is managed by his father. He still murmurs about an island paradise where he could concern himself exclusively with "eating and sleeping and the reproduction of the race," but he says less often that "I still...
...sinister theme ... It is also a tempting theme ... It was the hope of the Foreign Office and also of Neville Chamberlain that both Nazi Germany and Communist Russia would destroy each other by their complementary antagonism . . . Kicking this dream around is like pretending that there are nice burglars and nasty ones...
...deserves much credit for making Chris extremely natural and likeable, mostly devoid of Miller's pomposity. But Whedon is not quite deft enough to give the role its proper proportions. He too often is content with a safe reading of his difficult lines, seldom rising very much above his "nice guy" interpretation...