Word: waspishly
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...date timetable. Bent on being a sports-minded pal to a schoolboy visitor, he remarks chummily that the first description of tennis in Russian literature "is found in Anna Karenina, Tolstoy's novel, and is related to year 1875." Whenever Pnin stops talking, Novelist Nabokov steps in with waspish, high-spirited asides on U.S. higher education, culture vultures and modern art ("Dali is really Norman Rockwell's twin brother kidnaped by gypsies in babyhood"). For the rest, Pnin's centripetal personality holds this novel together, and his centrifugal English keeps the laughs flying...
After, an impassioned hour and 40 minutes in defense of India's seizure of disputed Kashmir, India's waspish V. K. Krishna Menon, the United Nations' champion long-distance speaker, collapsed in a heap one day last week and had to be rushed off to the medical clinic...
Muldoon also has a family. It consists of a waspish, bigoted little wife who seems to spend most of her considerable energy in making everybody including her husband feel uncomfortable. Mrs. Muldoon is played by Katherine Squire, who deserves some sort of award for a heroic, if unsuccessful, struggle in the face of overwhelming odds...
...acting in the other roles is fine, without exception. It is the look of the characters that most gives them life. Waspish grandfather Kashirin (M.G. Troyanovsky), Uncle Mikhail (A. Zhukov) whose nose seems to run down from the part in his hair to the floor, and the carnival clowns, who don't need to talk: they all look what they are and, in every gesture, are what they look like. None more than V.O. Massalitinova who plays massive bell-like Granny Akulina. Except, perhaps, for her, no single character dominates the film. It offers instead a horde of images...
...Waspish Ted Williams, 38, the Boston Red Sox slugging outfield spitter, happily signed up for his 16th season in the big leagues, had no reason to be disappointed with a salary at least as good as last year's: a reported $100,000. "But I will be disappointed if I don't drive in 100 runs, hit 20 or 30 homers and hit .330 or .340. As you get older, you start realizing there isn't a whole lot of things you know better than baseball...