Word: elwood
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Sebelius is a Democrat who was twice elected governor of Kansas, a heavily Republican state. She helped draft a national bill of patients rights, and was described by HKS Dean David T. Elwood as “a pro-business democrat...
...Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” (Dir. John Hughes)—With all apologies to “Joliet” Jake and Elwood Blues, no other film better captures the romantic American Dream that is Chicago. What kid growing up in the Chicago suburbs—or any suburb, for that matter—doesn’t dream of cutting class, catching a Cubs game, visiting the museums, and simply experiencing the wonder of the Windy City...
Convicted arsonist Ottis Elwood Toole twice confessed to abducting Adam Walsh, 6, whose 1981 disappearance inspired his father John's advocacy for missing children. But Toole also twice recanted. Some believe he wanted to cash in on book and film deals...
...DIED. ELWOOD (BUCK) PERRY, 90, enterprising angler who invented structure fishing-- a system of attracting deepwater fish by mapping out the underlying contours of a body of water, which he said revealed the routes taken by traveling fish--and the bottom-bumping Spoonplug lure to facilitate it; in Taylorsville, N.C. Although he patented the lure in 1946, his Spoonplug business did not take off until 1957, when he caught hundreds of bass at a demonstration at supposedly "fished-out" Lake Marie, near Chicago...
...Robert O'Connor's novel, plays like a mini-series compacted into 95 minutes. It develops a severe case of character sprawl: a clueless colonel (Ed Harris) and a hard-nosed top sergeant (Scott Glenn) and their respective women (Elizabeth McGovern, Anna Paquin)--both of whom cozy up to Elwood--plus lots of troublesome MPs and outsiders who stand in Elwood's way as he plans the big score. What's worth savoring is Phoenix's performance, cool and alert, confiding only in the camera. He elevates a crammed project into a sharp study of a character who doesn...