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...immediate gratification of the actors makes up for most of this confusion. Will Stewart, as Adam the repressed homosexual producer and fiance, starts out a little slow but soon eases into his character. Strutting about the stage, he makes great strides to assert his masculinity, making fun of "faggot beer" while defending the presence of the woman on the St. Pauli Girl bottle with the clever retort, "Yeah, but she's a whore." As the plot thickens and Peter is able to coerce him into sex, he reluctantly begins to admit that he enjoys it, and his faltering machismo...
Kennedy said that conservatives who assert thatthey feel uncomfortable expressing their views oncampus should look in the mirror...
Also, they assert such bickering detracts fromAgran's effort to promote his vision of the "NewAmerican Security...
...medal to her, but fell on the first turn. Later, in the 1,000 m, he fell again. Despair is too mild a word to describe the look on his face as he lifted himself from the ice. Four years later, a still introverted Jansen and his protective family assert that Calgary no longer haunts him. "There are other things in his life now," says his brother Michael. "He's married, and he's not as serious." Coming into the Albertville Games, Jansen was in the best shape of his life, buoyed by the enthusiasm and whipcracking...
...writers prefer to leave the real talking to themselves and not their sources. In what is the writers' deceptive modus operandi, Araton and Bondy will extrapolate from quoted statements and assert their own viewpoints and characterizations, often implying the quoted individual is saying what the writers believe...