Word: stalwartly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expect the surgery to succeed. By week's end, however, Dr. Peterson reported that Clark "had gone from a man who was blue from not enough oxygen before surgery to being pink." He was also talking, moving his arms and legs and, thanks to a stalwart plastic heart, beginning to enjoy a life on borrowed time...
...even the best programs break the mold; they only burnish it. The shows that hunker down on the middle ground content themselves with switching standard characters and stories around, rearranging furniture in an old house that actually needs razing, not redecoration. Giving the stalwart Brian Dennehy a hunky dimwit (Michael Dudikoff) for a teen-age son and a young daughter (Kathy Maisnik) who is enjoying some success as a country-and-western singer does not make him measurably less like Archie Bunker, even if his brains are heavier and his social conscience a little lighter. In Star of the Family...
...This seems to arise less from a regard for the Hitchcock tradition than from a quiet appreciation of its own classiness. As a murdered man's psychiatrist, drawn into the investigation of his patient's death and also toward his suspiciously nervous mistress, Scheider is sober, stalwart and workmanlike, but one longs for the goofy exasperation Cary Grant used to bring to roles like this, not to mention his wary misogyny. Yet Scheider can play a loony tune or two (see All That Jazz) if anyone bothers to ask him. Streep fares better. She is either the homicidal...
...Bayreuth Festival, however, can see him as something other than a stalwart. In a brilliant bit of casting against type, the suave, silken Prey has been portraying the cantankerous Beckmesser in Wagner's Die Meistersinger. It may be the first time in history that Beckmesser out-sings his tenor rival in the prize-song contest. "In his letters, Wagner said that Beckmesser should not be too comic," says Prey. "So I said I will sing this music like Schubert's Winterreise. "And he does...
...remains much as imagined four years ago in The Third World War: August 1985 by retired British General Sir John Hackett, 71, and his military associates. So does the authors' message: civilian blathering about disarmament is infantile, and the West's only hope is to trust its stalwart military men and give them whatever costly whizbangs they...