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...rumpled dresser with a former athlete's disdain for exercise as well as a fondness for junk food that has doubled his chin, Bradley is not particularly telegenic. Although he has a wry sense of humor, he is too deliberate to be glib. But Bradley, who actually writes his own speeches, is trying to become less wooden. "You improve the more you speak," he says. "If you think I'm bad now, you should have seen me at the beginning. I'm up from zero." Having mastered what he calls his "inside game"--a thorough command of detail--he says...
Witty and relaxed, Rehnquist gets on well with the other Justices and their staffs. Clerks from other chambers sometimes invite him out to a local pub for beer and burgers, and he invites his former clerks to his house in Arlington to challenge them at croquet. A rumpled dresser, he prefers Wallabees and sweaters to wing tips and pinstripes...
Noise from the 18-year-old's bedroom, the one that years before her latest movie was already decorated in pink--the blinds, the iron bed, the vanity, the dresser. A gust of stardust, and in breezes Molly: impossibly clear complexion (considering her deep-fry diet), hair like Ronald McDonald's, the famous waxed-candy lips semaphoring a smile. Today she is dressed in black, with standard-teen tribal earrings (diamond-encrusted loops, ruby stud in left ear), and as she says, "Hi," she piles her hair into a Wilma Flintstone topknot...
Friends fondly describe Modigliani, who emigrated from Italy in 1938 to escape anti-Jewish persecution, as a man filled with energy and enthusiasm. An indifferent dresser who fits the mold of the absentminded professor, Modigliani is known for grasping complex issues with amazing speed. For relaxation he turns to sailing, skiing and tennis, but his mind is never far from economics. He once developed an idea for a paper during a fierce tennis match against Samuelson...
William Hurt is Molina, a homosexual window dresser in his 30's sentenced to eight years with no parole for "corrupting a minor"; his cellmate, Valentin, played by Raul Julia, is a political prisoner held without trial and frequently tortured to disclose the names of his fellow Marxist rebels...