Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Described by many as soft-spoken but charming, the Secretary seemed "pleased and relaxed to be with students," said Dr. S. Allen Counter, director of, The Harvard Foundation, which co-sponsored the event with the Center for International Affairs...
PLACES IN THE HEART. A plucky widow saves farm and family in Depression America. And Writer-Director Robert Benton transcends bathos with his soft- spoken camera poetry...
...undermine one's hold on reason, to reduce everything, the good and the bad, to the same level of meaninglessness, symbolized India. The echo, in the novel, speaks thus: " 'Pathos, piety, courage?they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.' If one had spoken vileness in that place, or quoted lofty poetry, the comment would have been the same?'ou-boum...
...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...
...Barry wants to go out in a blaze of glory," says former Arizona Republican Chairman Harry Rosenzweig. G.O.P. Congressman John McCain of Arizona, who may run for Goldwater's empty seat in 1986, thinks his timid colleagues are secretly pleased by the plain-spoken provocations. Says McCain: "When you hear Barry Goldwater make a statement, and God knows he's quotable, the sentiment on the Hill is, 'Thank God Barry said what I didn't dare...