Word: awful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...George: Aw, who gives a damn...
...people, and you can feel it," says director Mike Nichols. But that's not all the actor and the President have in common. Both have answered prying questions about their private lives and sexual habits. And both know how to assuage their critics with roguish charm, cracking a humble aw-shucks smile or touching a stranger's arm to spark a personal connection...
...often swayed by geopolitical rather than literary criteria, had given her the prize because of what she was rather than what she wrote. But Morrison shrugs off these suspicions, which have accompanied every upward step of her career. "When I heard I'd won," she says, "you heard no 'Aw, shucks' from me. The prize didn't change my inner assessment of what I'm capable of doing, but I welcomed it as a public, representational affirmation of my work. I was surprised at how patriotic I felt, being the first native-born American winner since Steinbeck in 1962. [Subsequent...
...either seen the Farley vehicles or you're damn sure you don't want to: Tommy Boy (1995). Black Sheep (1996). Beverly Hills Ninja (1997). Homer Simpson said it best: "Aw, Spade, why'd you leave Farley in charge of the bees...
GEORGE BUSH Spiffy presidential library. If only he could have been so down-home and aw-shucks as Prez...