Word: stolid
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...Bradshaw's fellow players give him varying degrees of support. Madeline Rosten, as Barbara Allen, is a bit stolid on occasion, but she has the proper amount of scorn and sinfulness. Gary Zukav gives the part of Barbara's father an Andy Griffith reading, which somehow seems out of place, but he is funny. So is George Blecher, as Barbara's half-wit brother...
Died. Sir Percy Joseph Sillitoe, 73. former (1946-53) chief of M.I.5. Britain's fabled counter-espionage service, a stolid, strapping Londoner who worked his way up from ordinary constable, was drafted to run the secret service on the strength of his successes as a gangbusting police chief in a series of British cities, thereafter roamed the Commonwealth, often in disguise, investigating security capers that ranged from Communist meddling in the Mau Mau uprising to the defection of British scientists and diplomats; of leukemia; in Eastbourne, England...
...people. Aeneas almost parodies the traditional hero: when Fate tells him to depart he immediately says "of course" but when he thinks about it he curses the Spirit rather pompously. Alvarez Bulos paraded in just that manner, and swelled the roundness of his tone to catch Aeneas's rather stolid uprightness. In fact, his effort went too far: his tone became coarse and lacked contrast in its registers...
...name of Charles Edouard Jeanneret in the dour Jura mountain village of La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, a few miles from the French border. His parents were Protestants, descendants of the heretical Albigenses who took refuge in the town in the 13th and 14th centuries. His father, a stolid leader of the local Alpine Club, was an enameler of watch faces. His mother, who died last year at 100, trained her oldest son, Albert, to be a musician, and told Charles Edouard: "You will be a genius...
...tinker with a successful and standard formula; the only result is a fragmentation of the familiar.) As the duke, Stephen A. Barre has a few good gestures and not much of a voice. The voice of the "Idyllic Poet" (John Edwards) is capricious, but his performance of an essentially stolid part is essentially satisfactory...