Word: boundingly
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Joanna Cassidy is perfect as Robinson's flack-from-the-inferno wife Linda. (It was her firm that cooked up the ingenious idea of sending its calaboose-bound client, Michael Milken, to Shea Stadium, chaperoning hundreds of poor black children, an incident that is still remembered as one of the most cynical, albeit futile, stunts in the sorry history of public relations.) Rita Wilson as Kravis' wife, the fashion designer Carolyne Roehm, is quite believable in the role of a woman whose single indulgence was a daily Oreo. Even the smaller parts work quite well, notably Leilani Ferrer as Johnson...
That the government is bound and determined...
...this sounds like a torturous path, it is because any policy toward the paranoiac convulsions in former Yugoslavia is bound to contain contradictions and weaknesses. In insisting on protecting their own troops in Sarajevo at all costs, Britain and France have turned these peacekeeping forces into hostages easily manipulated by the Serbs. All the humanitarian aid seems occasionally absurd when the people for whom it is destined are routinely shelled, ethnically cleansed or raped...
Names possess a peculiar indelible power -- subversive, evocative, satirical, by turns. The name is an aura, a costume. Dickens knew how names proclaim character -- although anyone named Lance is bound to hope that that is not always true. Democrats used to have fun with "George Herbert Walker Bush." The full inventory of the pedigree, formally decanted, produced a piled-on, Connecticut preppie-Little Lord Fauntleroy effect that went nicely with the populist crack that Bush "was born on third base and thought he had hit a triple...
...quite an athlete," Coach Carole Kleinfelder says. "She always has a good sense of where the net is, and she's good enough that if other teams don't pay attention to her, she's bound to score...