Word: endearing
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Ervin, a judge in North Carolina for 14 years, arrived on the Hill in 1954. In his first major Senate speech, he castigated the maverick Wisconsin Republican, Joseph McCarthy. Although his civil libertarianism and antipathy to Richard Nixon would again endear him to liberals in the 1970s, Ervin was profoundly conservative. He was a diehard supporter of the Viet Nam War, anti- ERA and an unswerving opponent of civil rights laws. According to Ervin's strictly states-rights' reading of the Constitution, the document ought to forbid federal civil rights intervention, as well as the no-knock search warrants...
Something more seems to lie behind Watt's spectacular comic failures, however. Something connected to Watt as a character and to the audience (i.e., the citizenry) he haplessly addresses. His employer, after all, addresses the same audience quite successfully, except for the time he decided to endear himself to a group of professional women: "If it weren't for women, us men would be walking around in skin suits carrying clubs." Usually he does better. Unlike Watt, the President generally prefers humor to comedy, humor being the warmer and more companionable exercise. Comedy cuts off human feeling, humor...
...didn't have to be that way. Based on a Graham Greene novel, The Honourary Consul, the film has the requisite political intrigue, exotic locale and torrid sex to endear it to countless moviegoers. What's more, Beyond the Limit has Richard Gere and Michael Caine, two tried and tested actors, to carry things alone. But from this mass of potential, director John MacKenzie has crafted a remarkable vacuum...
...selection of the millionaire Spanish-speaking lawyer was greeted with restrained enthusiasm by many of his former congressional colleagues. Some were troubled by his hard-line ideological views, the same views that endear him to his Administration supporters, National Security Adviser William Clark and U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Stone's work in 1981 and 1982 as a paid lobbyist for the right-wing Guatemalan government of General Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia, a regime with an abysmal record of human rights abuses, also disturbs some members of Congress; they fear that this connection will hurt his credibility with Salvadoran leftists...
...Erich Segal's first novel Love Story, is traditional Freshman Week entertainment for good reason--it combines the most tearful of romances with the hope that true love can be found at Harvard. But Segal's latest. Which opens in Boston area theaters Friday, won't as easily endear itself to Cantabridgians. Erich Segal, who wrote the screenplay, as well as the original novel, for Man, Woman and Child, has deserted fair Harvard for the University of Southern California (cleverly disguised as a "Southern California University") where Bob Beck with teaches English literature. The sentimental appeal remains, embodied...