Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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North charged up Capitol Hill and took the forum away from the politicians. He played over the heads of the joint congressional committee, aiming his passionate rhetoric and complex charm at the 50 million people watching on television, the real audience and jury at the proceedings. The obscure, middle-level...
The congressional committee represents that later stage of the nation's development. North appeals to Americans as a magnetic character in the older style. Americans have a visceral attraction to cowboy morality. It is part of their folklore. When they see that it succeeds -- in the capture of the Achille...
To get inside Fox's heart and mind, Sheen spent a couple of days talking with David Brown, a former Goldman Sachs trader who pleaded guilty to insider trading charges in 1986. "A lot of these guys on Wall Street consider themselves to be warriors," reports Sheen. "They say, 'I...
At 19 she raised eyebrows by propositioning Warren Beatty onscreen in Shampoo. At 21 she took her career cosmic by playing Princess Leia in Star Wars. Now Carrie Fisher, 30, is making waves again as a first-time novelist. Postcards from the Edge (Simon & Schuster; $15.95), due in bookstores next...
Take Montand's Cesar, for example. His stride, his gesture, his voice bespeak implacable authority. Even his mustache reinforces the message. It is not the adornment of routine villainy, crimped and primped, but an ample, well-rooted assertion of masculine self-sufficiency, of immunity to the judgments of common men...