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Which is not to say that both men have not had more than their share of political problems. Quayle has been the brunt of jokes and criticism ever since Bush chose him, seemingly from out of nowhere, as his running mate at the 1988 convention. Quayle was too callow, some said. Too dumb, others suggested. Some experts estimate that his presence on the ticket in 1988 cost Bush as many as 3 percentage points in the popular vote. Since then, a series of flaps -- the great "potatoe" spelling bee, the anatomically correct doll that Quayle brought back from an official...
...clasping a woman in his arms and breathing heavy. Day-Lewis alternates between agitation and smugness, not unlike Dylan on "90210". He's handsome, and his hair is flowing, and he's really cute in buckskin trousers. But make no mistake, the real Natty Bumppo would have whipped his callow ass without breaking a sweat...
Fischer, the eternally callow prodigy, has been forgiven much in the past thanks to the splendors of his chess; at his peak he was, many experts believe, the greatest player ever. So, apart from speculations about whether he will wind up in some federal slammer, spitting on the guards, the big question as the games in Yugoslavia began was, How good is Bobby...
...Player is both very good and a quintessential Altman movie -- meaning smart, hip, satirical, charming, ironic but not callow, rich with telling offhand incident. "What's unique about The Player," says Trudeau, "is that he brings all this signature observational detail to a picture that Hollywood completely understands. In many ways it's a very traditional Hollywood movie, but he's given up nothing. That's why people are so astonished." It is, in a word, crypto-conventional, self-consciously including all the obligatory elements of commercial moviemaking -- stars, violence, unclothed women, lockstep plotting -- but messing with them. The really...
...callow members of the Unified Team want to win too, but their motivation for playing well is mainly so they can escape to the N.H.L., like nearly two dozen of their former colleagues. Such Unified Team stars as Alexei Jamnov, Alexei Kovalev and goalie Mikhail Shtalenkov know that stellar performances will take them from Moscow's food lines to the land of sports agents and deferred-annuity packages in seven figures. Unified Team coach Victor Tikhonov, who prefers the discipline of the old order to the chaos of the new, is trying to make teenagers play like Heroes...