Word: detailism
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...that "it is highly rewarding in the financial sense..." Therefore, owing quite a bit to the IRS, he looked forward to scoring a "breakthrough" film project that would simultaneously solve his financial troubles and resuscitate his standing in the Hollywood community. The juiciest anecdotes in Hill's biography detail the curious way in which he pursued this breakthrough: in true self-destructive, Wellesian style, he hooked up with a variety of collaborators who were immaculately talented, but were further along in their alcohol- and drug-dependency than he was (Hill sketches Southern as a functional "user" whose biggest weaknesses were...
...Bush-Putin meeting is not expected to produce any grand agreements. Bush will come armed with loosely worded proposals for cooperation on missile defense and Russian membership in the World Trade Organization. But there will be little detail, and with the two-hour meeting eaten up by niceties and translation time, no deal is likely. But a deal isn't the point. What Bush is doing is setting a new tone for Europe. Five months into his term, it's time to make a better impression...
Blair's cool charisma, however, does still resonate. He has mastered all the weird demands of modern electioneering, from small talk with nervous students to command of arcane detail under TV cross-examination. Blair likes his job, though it has clearly aged him. Unlike his friend Bill Clinton, "he never shouts at people; he's a motivator for his staff--even in a crisis he cracks jokes," says an adviser. He goes to movies, plays tough tennis, loves The Simpsons. He can even be seen pushing baby Leo's pram by himself in St. James's Park on a Sunday...
...substitute parents," the source says. "Our function is to keep her [Jenna] safe and secure and get her home every night." A good relationship between the Bush daughters and their minders matters, because as adults over 18, the twins can ditch their detail at any time. That means agents must take their lumps, letting misdemeanors go and trying to stay inconspicuous (which still doesn't explain the Hawaiian shirts). "If they push us away," says the source...
...visit relatives back east, and I just started to steal drinks from my relatives. I really can't tell you much more about my youth than that first day drinking. It was the middle of summer, it was June, it was a bright day, I can almost describe every detail. But I can't tell you anything from grade school. I drank pretty much any time that I could. I would steal wine from my parents and by the time I was 10 or 11 I was drinking weekly, every other week, daily if I could. My parents quit buying...