Word: sullenness
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...Some say these local elections are diluting the Communist Party's power. And the party leaders now have a vested interest in the economy's steady advance. As their Marxist ideology loses all legitimacy under the wave of money that has finally turned the country, after 150 years of sullen resentment, into a strong competitor with the West, their very survival seems to ride on their ability to keep the economy going...
...preacher must learn to trust his own and his parishioners' best instincts. And that means, in the script by Nat Mauldin and Allan Scott, endless scenes of perfunctory angst. Vance, who has more screen time than either of the big stars, is required to play it slow and sullen. This leads director Penny Marshall into strategies alternately depressive and manic. She trails dutifully after the dour preacher, then binges on cuteness: a lisping kid's radiance, say, followed by a reaction shot of adoring adults going "Awww." The audience is so many Strasbourg geese, force-fed treacle...
...Native Americans new age wise men, alcoholic victims, valiant survivors of a Wild West holocaust (as in Ken Burns' recent PBS saga), just plain folk not much different from the rest of us, casino-owning entrepreneurs, sullen separatists...
...week to witness the renomination of Bill Clinton will choose that particular metaphor, or anything like it, to describe this year's incumbent President. Nor will anyone try to make the case--with a straight face--that Americans in general are particularly "fond" of their leader. Clinton faces a sullen press corps, a larger public that tolerates him at best, and a sizable opposition that despises him with extraordinary passion. Meanwhile, he lacks even a medium-size cadre of genuine enthusiasts. He doesn't have a single reliable journalistic hagiographer, though Reagan had a dozen. Indeed, do you know...
...press behaved better when Chelsea accompanied her mother to South Asia in 1995--the first time most reporters got to see the First Daughter up close, having agreed not to ambush her. While many children of the highly placed are attention-mongering monsters or sullen recluses, Chelsea came across during grueling hours of travel as relaxed and friendly, informed without being a smarty-pants, gracious even when sitting cross-legged in a 100[degree] tent for an hour in India with bamboo weavers. She seemed to love her mother, of course, but also to like her, in a way that...