Word: stolidness
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Soul Soldier, which concerns the adventures of a troop of "colored cavalry" in Texas shortly after the end of the Civil War, is so ragtag that it looks as if it might have been an aborted Poverty Program project. It features former Olympic Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson as a stolid cavalryman who tried to keep peace with the Indians. Johnson is convincing, at least, in his stolidity...
...come. What turns out to be most significant about the era is not its spectacular vulgarity and lust, or the brilliance of its art, but its sheer inattention to what was really happening-the long struggle between Communists, Socialists and Nazis. The popular stance in politics was a traditionally stolid German "Ohne mich"-"Include me out." Friedrich describes a night when, despite fighting in the streets, U.F.A., Germany's giant movie company, went ahead with its press preview for Carmen, starring Pola Negri and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. "The champagne was chilled to perfection," Miss Negri recalled...
...whole thing very gracefully by taking his belt, swallowing hard and flashing a quick victory grin at his disappointed companions. Bush, so good as Jack Nicholson's hillbilly buddy in Five Easy Pieces, is even better here-prickly and sardonic. The other members of the Culpepper outfit are stolid and laconic, but most of them (especially Luke Askew and Bo Hopkins) manage to be interesting anyhow...
...demure attendance round their father the king. Without any outward signs of wonder, he accepts the magical rituals he sees in Colchis and the incredible tales of the centaur. Without much conscience he determines to marry Creon's daughter and gain the kingdom that way. Watching this paragon of stolid believingness and believableness, the audience is drawn by him into belief in Medea...
HENRY JACKSON. Stolid, square, unexciting but commonsensical, he is trying to appeal to the old-fashioned instincts of the average voter. But this campaign style has the drawback of not sufficiently dramatizing the candidate. Jackson can still walk down a main street in Florida without being recognized; his crowds tend to be attentive but small. When they see a billboard that urges "Vote for Scoop," some Floridians think it is an aerospace project. Hard as he is trying to make hay with the busing issue, Jackson is not succeeding very well because Wallace talks about the subject in a manner...