Word: stolidness
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...gentle fun at the foibles and failings of American politics and its practitioners. His interview with Senator Edward Kennedy last fall caught the candidate at his inarticulate worst and is possibly the most important work of political journalism of the entire campaign. On-camera, Mudd is soothing if somewhat stolid. For viewers who like someone more neutral than the electrifying Rather, Roger Mudd may some day be the man of the evening half-hour...
Irving Stone (Lust for Life, The Agony and the Ecstasy) steers a safe and steady course through Darwin's life. Cannily, he sticks to the intellectual shallows and piles up the domestic details. It is a stolid, readable job in which the author at tempts to dramatize the excitement of scientific discovery with fictionalized dia logue and lines like "He felt he was on to something . . . important." That he was, but somehow Irving's Origin of Charles does not seem up to Darwin's Origin of Species...
...face betrayed none of the joyous gluttony of our other great obese director, Orson Welles--a loquacious whale who would swallow the world. In Hitchcock's films, food was often associated with guilt; it was a sign of indulgence. Hitchcock was a perverse brat buried in mounds of stolid grey flesh--our naughtiest virtuoso...
Late in the 11th century, Shang rule was supplanted by the Zhou dynasty, and one of the museum's outstanding exhibits is a stolid bronze vessel whose inscription records that it was cast on the eighth day after the Zhou victory. The Met is still amazed that the Chinese agreed to let it leave the country. "It's like lending the original copy of the Declaration of Independence," says Assistant Curator Maxwell Hearn. Over the next eight centuries, Zhou craftsmen became increasingly uninhibited in adding figures to their vessels, as handles or simply as decoration. One massive vase...
...Cronkite for the anchor role for almost a decade. But some CBS executives noted that Mudd, though an experienced Washington correspondent, has never worked overseas, is not the compliant sort of company man that CBS appreciates, and is thought by some at the network to appear a bit too stolid on the screen. Still, Mudd was so sure he had the job that he recently refused to fill in one week for Cronkite; he wanted to go skiing instead. "I think he overestimated his hand," says one colleague. Said Mudd, who may well leave the network: "The management...