Word: raffishly
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...opposition is not a simple matter of Good (noble conservatism) vs. Evil (predatory pragmatism) because one factor is dependent on the other. The Ewing Oil empire supports the ranch home; the business keeps the family together. J.R. may behave like a raffish amalgam of Machiavelli and the Marquis de Sade, but if he is evil, he is a strong, necessary evil for the weaker family members. His ruthless devotion to expanding the Ewing empire almost justifies his weakness for the three Bs: booze, bribes and broads. Oil work and no play would make J.R. a dull boy-and would have...
True, the raffish-brother act has had its more edifying counterpart. Milton Eisenhower, the brains of the family according to Ike, enjoyed a sort of unappointed super-Cabinet status during the '50s. John Kennedy formalized the fraternal arrangement by making Bobby Kennedy Attorney General...
...quite a narrative trick, one that allows the author to hit the emotional highs and bawdy lows of Shapiro's lurch through a world of dubious achievements and even more dubious respectability. Joshua, with his raffish background and inherited street smarts, is an arbiter of such matters. Most of his childhood friends make it to Montreal's affluent suburbs and lose their roots in wall-to-wall carpeting. To put on occasional airs is human, but to be a full-time phony is to risk devastating caricature, like Yossel Kugelman who becomes Psychiatrist Jonathan Cole, author...
...Saturday night and dance with a lissome girl in a pastel ao dai. But such moments are illusory. The Marxist regime of the North makes its presence felt down to the naming of streets and buildings. The elegant Caravelle Hotel is now the Independence. The city's raffish main street, Tu Do (Freedom) has been renamed Dong Khoi (General Uprising), commemorating the Communist takeover...
...Dancing Legend John W. Bubbles, who created the role of Sportin' Life in Porgy and Bess, lifts a still rakish derby and a still raffish tenor in It Ain't Necessarily So. Wilson is now halting of step and Bubbles is confined to a chair. Their performances affirm that careers may be long to a particular age, but talent is ageless...