Word: somberness
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DOCTORS ALWAYS LOOK out of place in somber, oaken courtrooms, as if someone in the TV production office had made a mistake and scheduled a segment of the "Bold Ones" on the wrong set. The men in the white coats either fidget nervously in the witness box, or put on a knowledgeable and worldly air, but the M.D.s feel no better under oath than the lawyer feels under the knife...
...peignoir with a sinister black cat draped over her shoulder. In her prose, too, she has mostly worn her rue with a deference to the reader's need to take his shots of cold mortality with a little sweet vermouth. Lately, however, the author has grown more flatly somber, shorter on style, wit and patience, like a lonely spinster who has become too preoccupied, too saddened by the world to go through the reassuring motions of genial small talk...
...Jeannie is pregnant, her moth er (Doris Petrie) hysterical, her father (Donald Pleasence) incensed. The father gets his best friend, a grizzled rummy named Sandy (Leo Phillips), to marry Jeannie and give her child a name. The actors are all stringently naturalistic, and Director-Writer William Fruet, setting his somber story in a provincial Canadian town during World War II, is scrupulous about details of place. He also takes care with even the shortest scene, the slightest ges ture, and what power Wedding in White possesses draws from the impact of accumulated detail. Beyond some few grace notes of style...
...eyes somber...
...much criticism of so many aspects of Nixon's Viet Nam policy, the call from Risner must have sounded like the most heartening kind of vindication. The President, who returned to Washington later that day, suddenly seemed to become yet another new Nixon -ebullient, conciliatory, even humorous. The somber isolation of Camp David far behind him, he was suddenly everywhere, talking officially and informally on a variety of subjects. With his family, he strolled and quipped his way through Lafayette Square Park ("Perfectly safe. No problem when you've got about ten Secret Service agents with you"), dined...