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...third of Scott's mild and curious heroines, a sort of professional consoler to be found at the bedsides of the series' variously suffering characters, Geraldine James is unremittingly sensible. So too is Charles Dance as Guy Perron, the thoughtful, soft-spoken officer with whom she feels rapport. But the most dominant of all the performances is that of Pigott-Smith as Merrick. Holding together the entire series with the black magic of a self-made lago, he is a picture of twisted pride and prejudice, his face permanently pinched, his upper lip invariably quivering toward a sneer...
...delivery boy soft-shoeing his way past a wary receptionist. And watch closely, for in the wink of a camera's eye he is going to be a furious Customs inspector whose bite is worse than his bark. Or a homosexual lisping his way past a posh club's maître d' with a particularly mad invention. Murphy exudes the kind of cheeky, cocky charm that has been missing from the screen since Cagney was a pup, snarling his way out of the ghetto. But as befits a manchild of the soft-spoken '80s, there...
...pretty good at it, because I was a lot bigger," says the soft-spoken Southerner...
Harvard Coach Joe Restic adds that the soft-spoken Abbott "has handled the captaincy with a touch of class...
Yale's current 5-3 overall record and 4-2 Ivy mark speaks for the Bulldogs' improvement, and veteran Coach Carm Cozza attributes much of the success to the leadership of the soft-spoken Martinson...