Word: gruffness
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Meanwhile, back on the ground, gruff but lovable Troubleshooter George Kennedy is struggling to clear the runway of snow, while the airport's p.r. girl, Jean Seberg, casts concerned glances at stoic Manager Lancaster. Customs Officer Lloyd Nolan tries to keep the flow of contraband at a minimum, but the flow of clichés is not, unfortunately, his department. Produced by Ross Hunter, fearless champion of the industry's carrière-garde (Pillow Talk and Thoroughly Modern Millie), the movie spends over two hours proving what every seasoned traveler already knows: waiting around airports...
...gruff public harangue gives way to gentle, witty cajolery. The four-letter words that normally shock become almost terms of endearment...
...city, carnival to a million peculators in wheat, meat and railways. Pickpockets, exposure and starvation nearly do him in until the boy comes under the wing of a municipal madam named Queen Lil (Melina Mercouri). Lil's most valued friend is one Francis X. Sullivan (Brian Keith), a gruff newspaperman who booms about integrity and who would sell his grandmother for a headline...
...very good reader, and his literary style is so conversational that he is at his best when he retells a story he wrote in one of his books. His extempore dialogue interspersed with "doncha know" and "isn't that so." is witty and engaging. His gruff, gravelly voice, not unlike that of Huphrey Bogart, conveys a tone of ironic detachment which helps in sensing the tone of his books...
...Dallas' gruff, shrewd Real Estate Tycoon O. L. Nelms. For more than a decade, Nelms has placed advertisements in the personal columns of local papers saying, "Thank you, Dallas, for helping O L. Nelms make another million." Now he has an even bigger and better idea: he is creating a $5,000,000 fund to provide huge public cocktail parties with free food and drink for anyone who wants to attend. By spending only the income Nelms can give several super swingers a year from now till the end of time. "This would be a real nice...