Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Robert Dole. The once stolid, sardonic and brooding Senate minority leader has seemed positively giddy since Clinton moved into the White House. Dole has never before enjoyed the luxury of being minority leader against a Democratic President -- and he clearly likes the work. To be sure, the President has yet to make it difficult for him. Last month Clinton's decision to stick with his own so-called economic stimulus package, instead of an alternative proposal suggested by key Senate Democrats on the Finance Committee, made it possible for Dole to unify all his 43 Republicans behind a filibuster that...
...abuse, playing the telephone like an organ as he hypocritically curries or grandiosely dispenses favor. Stephen Spinella as the sick, saintly queen and Joe Mantello as his unhinged lover are endlessly watchable, nakedly real. Alas, David Marshall Grant and Marcia Gay Harden are ciphers as the Mormons, he as stolid as wood and she vibrating like Jell-O; neither offers insight into the pain that mainstream audiences are most apt to understand...
...together a convincing dramatic collage of her own as the tough and straight-talking Madeleine, a Madeleine that is intellectually, though not emotionally, in touch with Fergus's elan. Yet despite her strong interpretation of the theme, a weakness arose with their non-spoken rapport. Sullivan's often stolid looks during Poulios's passionate monologue's seemed incongruous. Her gestures and portrayal of surprise or rage were often not very convincing...
...GIRL, a comedy so dark that some viewers take it for tragedy. This sly parable starts with a brisk documentary on the transformation of a stick of wood in a box of matches, then spends the rest of its 70 minutes on the transformation of Iris (Kati Outinen), the stolid young woman on the assembly line, into a keg of emotional dynamite. Kaurismaki's almost-silent movie features a cast of rats -- mother, stepfather, brutal beau -- for whom rat poison may be the best antidote. And for U.S. viewers, Match Factory is a splendid introduction to a world-class...
...sleek new high school on the north edge of town has replaced the two stolid, red brick rectangles. And it seems something akin to a death in the family. The desire to stand one last time in the embrace of those weathered friends was simply overpowering...