Word: puckishly
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...Walter Cronkite is the father image of broadcast journalism and David Brinkley the cool analyst, Harry Reasoner of CBS is television's friendly next-door neighbor. Other commentators are effervescent or stern, puckish or olympian, earnest or remote. Reasoner comes across as warm, witty and involved not only with the news but with his audience as well. Everything about his face - the grey-white shock of hair, shaggy temples, rugged chin, deep smile lines flanking a spreading nose - seems square, safe and reassuring in a 'chaotic world. His manner brings viewers a message that middle-class values...
...close-cropped skull and impassive features give him the forbidding countenance of a Japanese war lord. His steely mind and stinging tongue deepen the impression of a political samurai. Though he is in fact one of the nation's wiliest politicians, in private life he is a puckish, convivial figure...
...soloist in the Beethoven, Mr. Kalam, winner of the H.R.O. Concerto Contest, gave an astonishingly mature performance which was first-class in all respects. His tightly sealed conception projected a powerful sense of unity. It also preserved the concerto's familiar yet still voktile interplay of traditional restraints and puckish invention. Unhampered by technical difficulties, Mr. Kalam was the master of every phrase. By choosing not to extend dynamics to the upper limits, he achieved the ideal of every performing artist--the illusion of complete control with power to spare. The orchestra could not help but be influenced...
Loafers & Loud Coats. Stocky (5 ft. 9 in., 170 lbs.) and balding, Lane wears a puckish smile fixed below his wire-rimmed spectacles. Instead of banker's grey, he prefers loafers and loud sport coats; he has made a trademark out of ties, in a variety of colors, bearing the inscription: "It's a wonderful world...
Prentice Claflin, as the puckish lush Ivan the Knife, swaggers, slobbers, and leers risibly. Hotiana's Jo (Peter Gilbert) on the other hand maintains the stony-faced good humor of a vacuum cleaner salesman reciting the merits of a Hoover...