Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Zyuganov is a stolid apparatchik, and before last month's balloting, he said he was uncertain whether it would be better for him to run for President or to help elect an antireform leader who had better name recognition and more appeal across party lines. Last week one such candidate put his name forward: Alexander Lebed, a war hero and retired general. Lebed, who is immensely popular with the public and has a strong nationalist voice, said he would run in June and that he hoped to do so in cooperation with the Communists. Party leaders seemed irritated...
Student opera--the phrase is enough to unnerve the most stolid opera lover. Yet this year's Dunster House production of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and La Rondine proves a delightful exception. With gratifyingly competent singing and acting illuminated by two stellar performances, the Dunster House production is a rare musical offering...
During his six years as Senate majority leader, Maine's GEORGE MITCHELL never presented himself as one of Congress's more magnetic leaders. But the publicly stolid statesman, who gave up his seat last year, must have maintained a very different dating persona. In an upcoming Vanity Fair interview, Mitchell's new wife HEATHER MACLACHLAN, formerly an agent for tennis pros, recalls their first meeting this way: "Right away he seemed so special. I could sense his individuality, his sense of humor. It was obvious that he had so much confidence in himself as a human being...
...more Freudian. One touching moment comes when Sainte Colombe and his two daughters are giving a recital and Madeline, the oldest girl, eagerly tries to make her father smile while he maintains his mask-like grimace. As a patriarch, teacher and companion, Marielle's Sainte Colombe is a stolid and laconic figure, and it is only through listening to his sounds (played by Jordi Savall), the cries and tears made by his viola, that we get to know...
...scandal, is reborn as perhaps the most offensively stereotyped Jew in modern American cinema. To gauge the injustice, one has to go back to the actual tapes of Van Doren and Stempel on Twenty-One. Van Doren's theatrical groping for answers today looks phony, while Stempel's stolid awkwardness is rather ingratiating. He may not have been classic TV material, but Herb was the better actor...