Word: career
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Betrayal of whom? Web journalists, at least anecdotally, know them well: They are the Clinton hunters. At the other end of the President?s gravity-defying approval numbers is a band of perhaps 25 percent of Americans who firmly believe Clinton is a career criminal who should have been impeached and removed long ago. But when the New York Times went looking for this steel-jawed minority, it also found Clinton?s worst fear: a subset of those job-approval groupies that nevertheless finds the scandal -- and the President himself -- a wearisome embarrassment and wants him to resign. They...
...between Scolari, all neurotic flutters, and the more bullyish Hanks. "There was no reason to hire me," Hanks says. "I was a new guy." Yet here he was, at 23, earning $9,000 an episode: "I made more money in two weeks than I'd made in my entire career." Scolari recalls that "Tom lived in a Leave It to Beaver house with Samantha and their two children." The Hankses separated...
...MARRIED A COMMUNIST Iron Rinn, ne Ira Ringold, is a prominent radio actor during the late '40s and early '50s whose career collapses when his estranged wife writes a book titled, quite accurately, I Married a Communist. Philip Roth filters the story of Rinn's downfall through the memories of two men who loved and admired him. The mania of the Red-baiting days is recorded with perfect pitch. Roth's look at the past is harrowing and mesmerizing...
...RICKY WILLIAMS Just when the NFL was short on running backs, University of Texas senior Ricky Williams broke Tony Dorsett's 22-year-old record for career college rushing yards. Since Williams has dreadlocks, a nose ring and a pierced tongue, plus a refreshing measure of humility, odds are his name is going to be on your kid's shirt this time next year...
...Beverly Hills native and the oldest daughter of screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Ephron, the filmmaker attended Wellesley before entering a career as an East Coast journalist and, eventually, a famously bad marriage to Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein. It is not surprising, given Ephron's history, that her heroines typically have a passionate connection to words. Ryan was a writer in When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless, and is a bookstore owner in Ephron's new e-mail love story. "Romantic comedies are always about words," Ephron reminds. "People hate each other because of what they say or love each other...