Word: unctuously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, like all new strongmen-and a few old ones-Marcos, 55, apparently felt that he needed popular approval. For months the press, once the most outspoken in Asia but now censored, extolled the government. Realizing that such unctuous flattery was making a mockery of the whole election, Secretary of Information Francisco Tatad finally warned against "incompetent praise" and "24-hour encomiums." To ensure a maximum turnout, illiterates were added to the voting rolls and the franchise was extended to 15-year-olds...
...while, in America, sportswriters and boxing buffs--mainly whites, but some blacks, too--were doing the Saint Vitus Dance over what they called the irreparable damage Ali was doing to the fight game and its top honor. Like unctuous clergy defrocking a black sheep priest, they mumbled about heresy and the sovereignty of the faith as if pugilism were the true church of Christ in Everlast and Fat City the terminus of the Celestial Railroad. So, they shore Ali of his title, and with silent supplications for the second coming of the Great White Hope, called for a new idol...
There is no shortage of food in Managua; the only problem last week was that most of it was piled up in an airport hangar far away from the hungry and homeless of the city. A bevy of Red Cross volunteers and unctuous army officers waited to do young Somoza's bidding; for the moment, he had other things on his mind, namely his misplaced automobile. "Where is my car?" he demanded. "I want the person who took it arrested immediately," he said, and ran off in search of the culprit. Silence. Since nothing could be done without...
...wasted: a good-if perhaps too pat-idea, and some fine supporting performances, especially by Martin Sheen as an unctuous Army surgeon, Barnard Hughes as a frightened public health official, and Robert Walden as a callous clinician out from Washington to observe. Scott's direction is precise and more than promising. What Rage lacks is real tough-mindedness and courage, qualities it perhaps once had but seems to have lost somewhere along the way to the Army base...
Died. George Sanders, 65, cynical, sinister film smoothie for more than three decades; by his own hand (sleeping pills); in Castelldefels, Spain. Though he began his career as a singer, Sanders moved easily into movies during the '30s and was quickly typecast as the unctuous villain in such pictures as Lloyds of London and The Picture of Dorian Gray. He called his autobiography Memoirs of a Professional Cad and pooh-poohed his own acting ability, but won an Academy Award in 1950 for his role as the bitchy, jaded critic in All About Eve. His suicide note was totally...