Word: stiff
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...goes beyond just kind the stiff, classical outlook on things,” Collins says. “We’ll laugh at things, and we’ll have a good time. We’re pretty serious during rehearsals, but people can really get into it. A lot of people on HRO will hang out together, party together, and there is a kind of solidarity within the group...
They toil at a summer's game in sweatshops that are green and airy. The rank-and-filer earns an average of $363,000 a year, not counting shaving-cream endorsements. A major-league baseball player is hardly your typical working stiff...
...films like Last Year at Marienbad demanded to be approached like cryptic crosswords. For upwards of two hours we stretch our intellects to find the key to Wetherby's emotional life. The film's characters do not easily yield to analysis, though they are surely worth the bother. Their stiff upper lips are pursed in ruminative silence. And when they speak, they have something to say; Wetherby is a devilishly clever talk show. Moreover, they inhabit a film that commutes briskly through three time zones in one Yorkshire village--the present, the recent past and 1953--the better to study...
...U.S.S.R., Arbatov has turned the institute, as well as himself, into an active formulator of policy as well as an academic source of information. Although his writings reflect a yearning to return to the dtente of the early 1970s, he rarely deviates from the official Soviet line. His stiff criticism in 1981 of U.S. policy led the Administration to refuse to extend his visa so he could appear on a U.S. television program. In a typical laconic response, he told a TV interviewer, "What the Soviet Union is doing is explaining its position to the world. Somehow, your people...
...Patrick will most likely face stiff competition, as Attorney General Thomas Reilly and Secretary of State William Galvin are expected to enter the race in the coming months...