Word: stolidness
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...order gives him mastery and status, but it's the danger of the game--the inherent risk in even the smallest throw of the dice--that actually keeps him alive. Watching a horse race, or hunched over a craps table. Bob's eyes narrow in intense concentration and his stolid middle-aged body coils up youthfully like a spring. The ostensible plot of the film, the heist of the Deauville Casino, that Bob undertakes with his friend Roger (Andre Garet), is at once Bob's ironic revenge on Lady Luck--and a gamble itself, as the delightful denouement reveals...
...make make every every issue a test of his manhood," says a top White House aide. Whereas the former four-star general was flamboyant, emo tional and highly charged, Shultz, a com bat captain in the Marines who became an academic, is calm, collegial and reflective. His stolid demeanor seems more suited to absorb the bureaucratic shocks than Haig's thin skin. Says a senior State Department official: "Haig's style had be gun to be an issue in itself. Six weeks of Shultz have turned down the volume...
...discipline. The films mean to display these virtues as well and get a head start toward that goal by casting, as the mentors, Willie Nelson and, in The Challenge, Toshiro Mifune, two sternly noble faces worthy of being carved on any cinematic Rushmore. Each man carries an aura of stolid grace and flashing moral strength...
...with a mind-bending drug. Bond and the luscious daughter of an old colleague man age to penetrate the organization's 150-sq.-mi. Texas ranch headquarters, only to face death at the hands of killer ants, man-eating pythons and other unfriendlies. At times, Gardner's stolid prose style makes one long for Ian Fleming's insouciance. Still, it is good to watch England's last knight jousting with villains who make the Falkland Islands seem 2 million miles from...
...R.S.C. makes its debut with Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, performed on successive evenings or, on matinee days, in a single afternoon and evening. The opening productions are stolid, earnest and distinctly uninspired. The occasion totally lacks the incandescent flow that made the company's Nicholas Nickleby a unique theatrical experience. In tone Part 1 has a springtime mood, life blooming to be grasped; Part 2 is autumnal, life slipping away beyond one's grasp...