Word: genial
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...Manhattan's Greenwich Village. The usual mixture of hoboes and bohoes, kids out for a good time and jolly parasites out to feast on them. Around midnight, 400 or so young people have lined up on either side of the Eighth Street Playhouse box office. Their behavior is genial and gentle, with no rock-concert jostling; there might be an invisible Sister Mary Ignatius patrolling the sidewalk. One couple chats in Portuguese; a trio converses in Czech. It's a U.N. in miniature--so much so that when a derelict wanders by, desperate to strike up a monologue, he asks...
...thousands of fans who vote on each one-on-one dance-off with the volume of their cheers. A documentary that is all action, no narration, Rize lobs stereotype grenades--political (blacks in whiteface) and social (Tommy in clown garb at a funeral service)--that are defused by the genial mood. This would be an uplifting film even without some of the most amazingly agitated dancing since the Nicholas Brothers hung up their taps. Throw in that preternatural terpsichore, and Rize rises further. It is nothing less than a call to emotional levitation...
...genial, 6’3 Minnesotan has a lot on his mind—and a lot of bench time to think about...
Umberto Eco looks like a genial mentor, white-bearded and approachable, his comfortable rotundity settled deep in the softest armchair of his Milan living room. Yet the 73-year-old academic and author, condemned to international celebrity by his 1980 debut novel The Name of the Rose, is not without thorns. Today's discourse - ranging from his newest work of fiction, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, to politics, religion and neckties - bristles with sharp observations. Avuncular he may seem, but this famous European intellectual has not mellowed with age. Age, memory and nostalgia are, however, the central themes...
...Book of World Records for the most enduring movie partnership?were stately endeavors, with nary a monster shouting Boo! to frighten the children. But Merchant's death in London last week at 68, after an ulcer burst in his abdomen, was a shock to the international film community. A genial friend had left life's banquet much too early...