Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole thing very gracefully by taking his belt, swallowing hard and flashing a quick victory grin at his disappointed companions. Bush, so good as Jack Nicholson's hillbilly buddy in Five Easy Pieces, is even better here-prickly and sardonic. The other members of the Culpepper outfit are stolid and laconic, but most of them (especially Luke Askew and Bo Hopkins) manage to be interesting anyhow...
...demure attendance round their father the king. Without any outward signs of wonder, he accepts the magical rituals he sees in Colchis and the incredible tales of the centaur. Without much conscience he determines to marry Creon's daughter and gain the kingdom that way. Watching this paragon of stolid believingness and believableness, the audience is drawn by him into belief in Medea...
HENRY JACKSON. Stolid, square, unexciting but commonsensical, he is trying to appeal to the old-fashioned instincts of the average voter. But this campaign style has the drawback of not sufficiently dramatizing the candidate. Jackson can still walk down a main street in Florida without being recognized; his crowds tend to be attentive but small. When they see a billboard that urges "Vote for Scoop," some Floridians think it is an aerospace project. Hard as he is trying to make hay with the busing issue, Jackson is not succeeding very well because Wallace talks about the subject in a manner...
...towns McCloskey has visited three and four times, people still ask reporters: "Who was that? McCloskey? What's he running for?" After quick introductions, one gas-station attendant asked Ashbrook: "What brings you up to this neck of the woods?" Ashbrook's purpose was explained. The stolid Yankee reply: "Oh, really...
...Sitzungen (cabaret entertainments) were sold out; dances were crowded, and in normally somnolent Bonn the federal government and city administration started closing down last week as celebrating civil servants took to the streets. Seeking to explain the difference, some Germans theorized that wine-drinking Rhinelanders are more lighthearted than stolid, beer-drinking Bavarians. Mimchner who did not accept that theory could take comfort from another explanation: that their city is more sophisticated than the industrial centers along the Rhine...