Word: gruffness
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...expedition's gruff leader was unfazed. John Ackley (call sign: KP2A) had made a fortune by selling his New Jersey computer firm in 1976, then founded the tax-exempt International DX Foundation to promote worldwide good will by sponsoring such DXpeditions. His foundation had supplied all of the radio gear, while the trip's cost (more than $10,000) was split among the nine operators. Ackley set off with two crewmen in a 12-ft. dinghy, powered by a 25-h.p. outboard motor. One crewman skillfully maneuvered the tiny craft through the heavy seas to put Ackley...
...twitching, hunched, sour-eyed Zoditch recalls a Scrooge who has out-eaten his suit size and suffers itching and cramping as a result. Benedict constructs a mournful, perpetually apologetic Chulkaturin who simultaneously invites scorn and nurturing, contempt and sympathy. In a lesser part, Jeremy Geidt plays a convincingly gruff, patriarchal Ozhogin, father to the object of Chulkaturin's clumsy and unrequited youthful affections...
...without doubt the bravest young actresses in the business. As for Falk, his character has managed to identify himself, in his own mind anyway, with another traveling entertainer, Pagliacci. That, however, does not prevent him from wielding a baseball bat effectively when he has to defend himself and gruff words fail...
...manifests the change more in his costume than in his manner. Melato does acceptably as the lusty, Latin, sexually frustrated wife, but she fails to being much originality to this fairly conventional role. As character actors, Warden and Kiel deliver their roles in the usual manner: Warden as the gruff but lovable paternal figure, Kiel (remember Jaws in the James Bond movies?) as the superhuman giant who picks up and throws lots of very heavy objects. Kiel shines only briefly when, in a moment of vanity, he prances like a stud to the tune of Frankie Valli's "Walk Like...
...keep on shooting, we shall not stand idly by." So declared Prime Minister Menachem Begin as he tried to reassure a worried Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee of the Knesset that Israel's security had not been unduly compromised by the ceasefire with the Palestinians. Begin's gruff tone-and the contentious nature of the meeting-reflected Israel's mood last week as it counted the costs, military and political, of the 14 days of fighting and the uneasy peace that followed...