Word: stolidness
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...could this be? How could anyone have anticipated that despite all the stolid urban grays I had long championed, I would come to be a yellow person? Actually, quite a few people had more or less bet their careers on it, and some of them were hunkered down in this Seattle hotel room. The participants belonged to the 1,500-member Color Marketing Group, the Virginia-based color cartel that has held a largely unknowing public under its sway for more than 30 years. It was the CMG that forecast avocado refrigerators in the late '60s and mauve motel rooms...
...gift for attracting men of position leads her to Juan Peron (Jonathan Pryce), a junta colonel who becomes Argentina's President in 1946. Eva's glamour--less a natural attribute than a triumph of her will--and her urge to help the poor humanize Peron's stolid majesty; they also come close to bankrupting the country, even as they drain her. She fulfills the rock-age hagiography: live big, die young, and leave a memory that time can transform into gaudy myth...
Yeltsin will be out of action, and probably as remote as he has been up to now, until the New Year. As he recovers, he will rule largely through three people. His Prime Minister, the stolid Viktor Chernomyrdin, will present the administration's reassuring face--business as usual. His chief of staff, Anatoli Chubais, sardonically nicknamed the Regent by his enemies, will be the strategic powerhouse of the regime. And the key will be Yeltsin's younger daughter, Tatyana Dyachenko, who is the most trusted channel of political information to and from the President...
...getting a plethora of iambic pentameter. Last Christmas saw a stolid Othello (with Branagh and Laurence Fishburne) and the brutal, enthralling Richard III (Ian McKellen). This week three Shakespeare films will be on view: Romeo and Juliet, Al Pacino's Looking for Richard and the British Twelfth Night, or What You Will, directed by Trevor Nunn, the former Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director who has been named boss of the Royal National Theatre. Branagh has his four-hour Hamlet ready for Christmas. Filmmakers are trying every tactic--cultural intimidation, lavish spectacle, frenzied camerabatics and the casting of young stars...
...contest on the fate of democratic reform into a two-man race with his main challenger, Communist Party leader Gennadi Zyuganov. After weeks of extraordinary, exuberant stumping and an unprecedented media blitz, Yeltsin the populist politician has been reborn, while some of the gas has gone out of the stolid Zyuganov's gloom-and-doom campaign. With nine other candidates in the race, neither of the front runners is expected to win outright--50% plus one--in the first round, but there is little doubt that they will face each other in a runoff in July...