Word: badly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time he was up, directed him to the Harvest. Six-times Mr. Olympia, but still a big kid, he walked like a big kid, kind of lurching, walked right into cars on the way down the street. There really was something childlike about Arnold, Hercules decided, not in a bad way, but something refreshing in his simple outlook on life, his naive egoism, his sense of endless possibility. Hercules went back to the gym to lift weights...
Irving said an experienced writer can point out beginners' bad habits, thus saving them time--a writer's principle adversary. "It takes time to get confidence in your writing voice, and once you do, the obstacle becomes your imagination," he added...
While the NCAAs may have left a bad taste in the mouths of some of the swimmers, the American history major's performance at the end of the season at the Easterns showed his enormous talent, despite a slow start in his maiden year at Harvard...
...reasons Justin was chosen was because the interview made clear that he has a very good relationship with his real father, Cliff Henry, a portfolio manager for J.C. Penney. Another was that he had never acted before. Explains Director Robert Benton: "We didn't want anyone with bad habits." Still, after seeing the movie, audiences may be excused if they think he was born before the cameras, so true and so good is his performance...
...Kramer vs. Kramer. Emotions play across her face as subtly as breezes ruffling a pond; rarely have the varieties of anguish and uncertainty been so thoroughly catalogued through look and gesture. Streep's understated suffering rescues the character of Joanna Kramer from a virtually no-win plot: bad enough that a mother should leave her young child and then disappear from the film for nearly an hour; worse still that she come back and try to break up the new life that her husband and son have painfully built. "If Joanna is a villain," Streep recently told TIME...