Word: stalwartism
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...with her husband. The Countess has made a bad marriage and is now returned to the bosoms of her former associates sans Count and hoping to divorce, which casts her as a fallen woman in the eyes of this morally puritanical--though decadent--crowd. Newland Archer (played by a stalwart yet at times wistful Daniel Day-Lewis), the intellectually curious scion of a respected family, is one of the few willing to give her the benefit of the doubt...
...Concubine spans more than a half-century of Chinese history, from the Warlord Era through the Japanese occupation up to and past the egregious humiliations of the Cultural Revolution. Because the main characters who reflect and endure these tumultuous times are performing artists -- two stars of the Peking Opera, stalwart Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) and comely Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) -- the movie conjures up dozens of American movies, like Singin' in the Rain and For the Boys, in which popular entertainers put aside their differences before they put on the greasepaint. There is, of course, a pretty woman to fight over, Xiaolou...
Even the most stalwart opponents of gambling are breaking down. Louisiana, whose constitution orders the legislature to "suppress" gambling, decided to call it something else and in less than two years has gone from no gambling to riverboat gambling to approving the largest casino in the world on five riverfront acres in downtown New Orleans. Last fall the Bible Belt state of Missouri became a destination for riverboat gamblers off the shores of Kansas City and St. Louis. By the turn of the century, half of the states or more will probably have casinos, in part because...
Hill is the team's triple threat; he can run, field, and hit. The second leading rusher on the football team this year (averaging 4.2 yards per carry), Hill has stolen 28 bases in three seasons for the Crimson. A good glove in right field, the stalwart holds a remarkable .963 fielding percentage over the last two years-and he was errorless in league play last year...
...TIME/CNN poll showed respondents approving the plan 62% to 27%. Clinton also got a boost from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, a stalwart conservative, who not only commended the President but also indicated that the Fed would cooperate by holding down interest rates to soften the bite of higher taxes. But the first barrage of phone calls to Congress was highly negative, and there is something in the plan to offend almost every interest employing a lobbyist with an in at a particular congressional committee. Budget Director Leon Panetta told the Washington Post that chances of congressional passage are only...