Word: robust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court of sedate plutocrats. Its chimney is rakishly out of plumb. The roof shingles are a motley mismatch. An attached garage is nothing but a skeleton of stone pillars, and the garden is dominated by a magnificent stand of ragweed. The house shows not its facade but its robust posterior to Heathcote Road, one of the best addresses in New York's pleasant suburban town of Scarsdale...
...vital role of Bolingbroke is in the hands of another Festival newcomer, Charles Cioffi. Though I saw Madden's Hamlet, I've never seen Cioffi before. It is a pleasure to report that he is properly robust, appropriately broadshouldered, and possessed of a splendidly trained voice. He delivers the "sun sets weeping" speech beautifully--the only trouble is that Shakespeare wrote it for another character...
Consider that rogue Italo Bombolini, the shrewd, Machiavellian mayor who outwits half the German high command and successfully spirits 1,320,000 bottles of vintage vermouths and robust red wines from the Nazis in Robert Crichton's best-selling 1966 novel, The Secret of Santa Vittoria. Indeed a difficult part for an actor, calling for a subtle combination of gentle foolishness and hardheaded Italian moxie. So naturally Producer Stanley Kramer picked an Irishman, born in Mexico, who hails from Hollywood: Anthony Quinn, 52, who has been studiously preparing for his role as the rascally wine merchant by tippling Cinzano...
...closed last week at $26.75), A. & P. shareholders have long been restless over the company's declining (now 18%) share of grocery-chain sales. Last year its profit of $56 million (on sales of $5.4 billion) was off a bit from the previous year, despite Jay's robust prediction that earnings would be "running at a record pace...
...result of the war in Viet Nam. Now, accelerating inflation is worsening the payments problem. Last week the Commerce Department reported that shrinking exports gave the U.S. a trade deficit of $157 million during March, the first since January 1963. As a result, the nation's normally robust trade surplus shriveled in the first quarter to a meager annual rate of $731 million, about a sixth of the surplus the U.S. achieved last year...