Word: simpatico
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...Wrong. So when relief--a play or a novel or a movie with straight black and white characters--comes, you run to it. And since Mr. Crowther took such a tut-tut attitude toward the violence, I figured there'd be lots of it. That meant a simple simpatico bunch of heroes because, as any director knows, you can add brutality and blood baths only if the audience feels sufficiently gung-ho about the heroes...
Think how simple and simpatico James Bond is (he eats, sleeps, kills, drives a car). And how much sadism his movies get away with. The sadism could be even more serious if Bond weren't amoral. Nobody can entrust his heart, even for a picayune 90 minutes, to a man who doesn't give a damn. So the camera can't linger over the agony he creates (a knife in the back) or escapes (poison in the tea). Bond has our sympathy only in limited amounts...
...would open a new era of Latin American economic cooperation. It was Johnson's first trip ever to South America and his first opportunity to meet Latin American Presidents, many of whom had been prepared to dislike him. But Johnson proved far more charming and disarming, far more simpatico than most of them had expected-and they were won over. Even more important, the U.S. President sounded a clarion call that none of them could resist: "Let us declare the next ten years the Decade of Urgency...
...lure passengers by stressing service. Though their service is basically the same as that offered by U.S. airlines, each carrier still manages to provide some individual touches. First-class passengers on Lufthansa drink German draft beer, eat smoked-ham sandwiches on black pumpernickel. Alitalia bills itself as the "simpatico" airline: its stewardesses, though trained to wear makeup that looks made down, never quite conceal that tantalizing touch of Loren that they all seem to have. The newest wrinkle in service is the package tour that KLM and Belgium's Sabena (as well as the U.S.'s Pan American...
...dissertations. Lowell men nourish themselves on intelligent conversation. They work off the Central Kitchens' starchy fare by hard study: Lowell consistently houses a high percentage of the College's most distinguished scholars. And if a student is having difficulties, and needs help or advice, he could find no more simpatico person to talk to than Lowell's Senior Tutor, Richard Ullman...