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Next is the gee-I'm-so-cute-and-friendly approach, usually employed by girls and unctuous preppies. "Aw, c'mon, please, pretty please," they whine, eyelids batting somewhere down about the level of their drooling lips. But most annoying is the dissatisfied customer angle, to which there is no legally permissible reply. "Hey kid! I get more than that...
...communications policy is an absolutely essential ingredient of any White House policy. All success starts with the man in the Oval Office. I can't take one iota of credit for the standing of Ronald Reagan in the polls. It all happened naturally." That is Speakes' genius. With the aw-shucks cunning of a Mississippi country editor, which he once was, he instantly understood that the modern appetite for news meant that anytime he stepped out into the anarchy of the White House briefing room he could be on the nation's screens; he could get more airtime than...
...very precise and very careful," Tharp says admiringly. "He doesn't waste things, but he is also capable of being very adventuresome and working with great imagination in a studio." Indeed, Byrne's 73-minute score for Tharp's The Catherine Wheel was a dazzling bit of aw-shucks virtuosity...
...think there's something there. What it is is probably naturally explained. If the Lord were doing something -- that's a big if, O.K.? -- the oxidation, the vapor lights, whatever, the Lord would do it that way, naturally. It would get the people to come back to the faith. Aw, let me just say it's unusual...
...person." Hicks succeeds in making his character less of a chump than he might seem. Jamie plays the largest part in Nola's love life, and is especially useful as a foil for the other two men. After hearing a poem Jamie has composed for Nola, one competitor remarks "Aw, aw, that's the worst piece of shit I've ever heard...I don't mean to badmouth the brother but..." and proceeds to badmouth...