Word: boorish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time Chou finished his long goodbye and flew home to Peking, a Sino-Soviet dialogue had been established for the first time in 16 months. The olive branch had been offered to all warring parties in the Communist movement, and the acute embarrassment brought about by Khrushchev's boorish intransigence had been transmuted into a glow of wary hope. How healing this might be for Communist prestige with the "nonaligned" was illustrated by the report that Algeria...
...variety of accents. The leading man, Spalding Gray, who plays Mirabell, is particularly poor. He has either been miscast, or misdirected. Supposedly the most attractive man in London, a wit and a charmer, he talks like a self-satisfied New England prep school master. Next to him the supposedly boorish Sir Wilfull Witwoud (John Peaks) is a gallant gentleman...
...Norwegians had had enough of Nikita Khrushchev even before he arrived. Television had shown the Russian Premier touring Sweden and Denmark, had reported his boorish belittling of Danish farming and his sneering remarks on Swedish defenses. When he clambered onto the quay in Oslo, a ragged cheer broke out from assembled Iron Curtain diplomats-but not from the 3,000 curious Norwegians who had gathered to examine the visitor. One little old lady was moved to waggle her umbrella at Khrushchev and shout "Murderer" until a manners-minded policeman placed his white-gloved hand firmly over her mouth...
...wasn't the sort of place people usually see a movie in. No boorish Moorish architecture, no chewing gum under the seats. Instead, the hall was a deep blue nave, immensely high and still, looped gracefully with golden galleries. And the images on the screen were not the sort one sees at the average alhambra. No Tammy, no Debbie, no winning of the West. Instead, a bear roamed and roared in a Mexican mansion and a regiment of French actors fought the American Civil War and a samurai disemboweled himself right there in front of everybody...
...almost totally spastic effect. Later O'Conner, played adequately by Dennis O'Keefe, tries to convince his family to come with him to his recently acquired theatre (a dilapidated church) in Seattle. His song's lyrics, "There's no battle, no rattle, in Seattle" followed by a boorish "Boom, boom, boom" are equally distasteful. Occasionally, in some of the comic routines, and in Miss Martin's warm expression of her love for life, in "Before I Kiss The World Goodbye" the score redeems itself...