Word: alec
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...article written just before the election, Alec McGinnis noted in the Washington Post that, in addition to being the nation’s first African-American president, Barack Obama could also break another barrier: He could become the first “metropolitan” candidate in a nation still obsessed with its agrarian heritage. “Would a big-city president address as never before,” McGinnis asked, “the problems of our urban cores—blighted housing, shoddy public transit, dismal schools...
...four leads gets his or her own plot. Reunited with his parents, Alex runs into a domestic bramble straight out of The Lion King: his father (voiced by the late Bernie Mac, whose Soul Men also opened today) is being challenged by the devious, Scar-like Makunga (Alec Baldwin). Manhattanite Alex must take the maturing journey from friendly stranger to source of family humiliation and finally to community savior - the Yankee of the pride. (The basic conceit, of an animal reared in showbiz captivity and forced to use his inappropriate skills to survive on the outside, will also...
...Writing Wrong? I can't help wondering whose handwriting that is under the picture of Alec Baldwin [Oct. 6]. Not his, for sure; he was only born in 1957. Shirley Gur Shpinoza, RAANANA, ISRAEL...
...Baldwin, Alec • Palin is imitated...
...again. To be sure, there are worse causes than raising awareness about Ernie Davis’s singular and inspirational story. Unfortunately, the overwhelming conventionality of “The Express” sands away this unique surface into an all too recognizable form. —Staff writer Alec N. Halaby can be reached at halaby@fas.harvard.edu...