There are some longueurs, as when he devotes four pages to an elaborate reading of the nursery rhyme "Baa Baa Black Sheep" in order to show why such an interpretation is under-justified by the text, but overall it's an amiable affair.
It's a relaxed, amiable affair, which starts with Anna's announcement of the night's menu, such as tuna steaks on creamed spinach and homemade coconut pie for dessert.
In this past campaign, Al Gore and George W. Bush delivered the speeches on diplomacy that are still required in order to scale Mount Gravitas, and in their second debate they engaged in a blurry, amiable 45-minute discussion of foreign affairs.
Less than a week into their visit, they confessed in an interview in the Rubin's cafe that they were still terrified to leave their apartment without their translator, Tashi Dorji, an amiable Bhutanese graduate student in international affairs at Columbia University.
That seems a little ironic given that Ken Loach's film is such a engagingly spit-and-sawdust affair; a drama about an amiable communist who throws open the doors to let everyone inside.
Bhutanese archery is a highly sociable, often alcohol-fuelled affair with a hint of amiable danger thrown in.
Creel makes a nicely oily Kodaly, Michael McGrath a slightly vinegary Sipos, and Nicholas Barasch is an amiable Arpad, an eager delivery boy whose great love affair is with his bicycle.
The manuscript, "Amiable With Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem," was discovered in a previously untouched university archive and offers an unusual window on the ideas and events (like Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia) that animated Harlem on the cusp of World War II.
But what on television was an amiable domestic comedy becomes on the screen a bitchy, backstage affair of competing egos, ratings-chasing, professional double-crossing and celebrity.
"INTIMACY" A lonely bartender (Mark Rylance) has a highly charged (and sexually explicit) affair with Kerry Fox, an aspiring actress married to an amiable lump (Timothy Spall).
Ed Jenkins, an amiable, soft-spoken representative from Georgia who nonetheless confronted one of the most prominent figures involved in the Iran-contra affair during a Congressional investigation in 1987, died on Jan . 1in Atlanta.
