Word: somberness
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...Texas political fortunes. In the White House he must deal with the nation's press, not a group of colleagues. And he must also remember, although it rankles him, that what is written about him, and what is suppressed, sometime may shape as much public opinion as all those somber, reassuring speeches...
MOZART: OVERTURES (Angel). Besides six overtures, including The Marriage of Figaro and Cosl Fan Tutte, Otto Klemperer plays the gently brooding Masonic Funeral Music and the rich and somber Adagio and Fugue in C Minor, which Mozart arranged for string orchestra from a two-piano fugue. With London's Philharmonia Orchestra, which was reorganized and renamed the New Philharmonic Orchestra during the course of these performances...
Hedda Hopper was the town's genial Scold, Buster Keaton its somber Sphinx; together, they were Hollywood past and present. Keaton's world-the gothic twilight of the silent movie, the pratfall, the Quixote on a treadmill-dimmed when the sound stage dawned. Hopper's world-of glamour, gossip and low jinks among the high-lifes-survived largely because she made it seem exciting even when it was dull. When TV nearly killed the movies, she helped rescue them with exposés and exclusives, chitchat and charm; to 30 million readers, Hedda Hopper was Celluloid City...
...somber implications of the decision had allotted the Hamlet role to Lyndon Johnson, he was not entirely alone
...turnout of cops, the mourners were a somber, sober lot. "We called him 'Mother,' " explained a fellow cyclist. "He was so righteous. Any time there was a party, he was the first one there and the last to leave." When the "chicks" in leather boots and dark tights, usually proud of their toughness, saw the open casket with Miles's "colors," a sleeveless jacket bearing the Hell's Angels' emblem, they sobbed. Only after the funeral oration, when the coffin was placed in the hearse, did the sound that Miles lived and died by suddenly...