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...subtler differences between Easy and his predecessor. He owns a trim little house (complete with worrisome mortgage), yearns for the settled life and narrates his adventures in a style that avoids the lush metaphors Chandler favored. He even has a sidekick, Mouse (Don Cheadle), a genial psychopath in a bowler hat, comically eager to rub out anyone who crosses his path, whether he deserves it or not. He's a scene stealer, but so is everyone else Easy encounters: the nervously sexyBeals, a brutal-funny fixer with ambiguous loyalties (Tom Sizemore), an epicene politician (Maury Chaykin). But Washington, like...
...courthouse or post office or Army Reserve center is necessary if it means more debt for their offspring. "Regardless of what happens, we're going to deal with it," says Larry Akers, 40, a red-bearded construction foreman sipping a screwdriver at a Fargo tenpins alley called The Bowler. "It's going to hurt. But we're borrowing from our grandchildren. And it's got to stop somewhere...
...food stamps. Currently enrolled in a vocational school where she is learning word-processing and stress-management skills, Brown also has a Pell grant of $760 and a $1,700 federal loan to pay for her education. Sipping a Bud Light with her sister-in-law at The Bowler, Brown takes the news of the probable cuts in stride. "If they cut it all out, I would make do," says the plain-speaking brunet, who lost her long-distance-operator job at AT&T in a 1987 restructuring and has worked on and off since as a housecleaner...
...credits his parents for his achievements. His father is Calvin Hill, an All-Ivy football running back at Yale and a Pro Bowler in the N.F.L. His mother, Janet, was educated at Wellesley and was a friend and suitemate of Hillary Rodham Clinton's. "I know this sounds funny,'' he says, "but it was almost like being born into a royal family and being raised like a prince, being taught one day to become king. Not just how to be an athlete, but how to do things right." The Hill household in Virginia was a strict one: Grant's parents...
...difficulties of producing original, independent--minded projects." This year's winners will be Filip Forgeau and Maryel Ferraud who directed "L'Iguane." the somber, grey fantastical portrayal of Frag, a man who has just gotten out of jail and Matthew Harrison for his "darkly comic tale of an outlaw bowler's search for his long-lost father" entitled "Spare...