Word: fixers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even has a sidekick, Mouse (Don Cheadle), a genial psychopath in a bowler hat, comically eager to rub out anyone who crosses his path, whether he deserves it or not. He's a scene stealer, but so is everyone else Easy encounters: the nervously sexyBeals, a brutal-funny fixer with ambiguous loyalties (Tom Sizemore), an epicene politician (Maury Chaykin). But Washington, like the character he plays, knows how to roll with their punches. Reserved but agile, wary but thrusting when he needs to be, he gracefully reanimates a lost American archetype, the lonely lower-class male absorbing more cigarette smoke...
Thirty years as a revolutionary failed to wear down Yasser Arafat. One year as a pothole fixer has left him exhausted. While a leader in exile, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization maintained an air of triumph through highs and lows, flashing photographers a victory sign and a grin even in his most desperate moments. But now that Arafat is principally a governor and not a fighter, the effervescence has disappeared. On a recent evening, two senior aides found him so troubled by his burdens that he pleaded that they sit with him into the night. They stayed until...
Fitzgerald romanticized the business (as he did everything else) and so vastly exaggerated his census of production genius. Another writer, William Goldman, author and fixer of many a screenplay, came closer to the true figure, which is zip. NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING, he wrote, putting his dictum in capital letters in the vain hope that people would pay serious attention...
Cobb once held some 40 major-league hitting and base-running records, and his lifetime batting average (.367) remains unsurpassed. Aside from that, he had everything to hide: unquestionably a womanizer, a wife beater and a venomous racist, he was possibly a murderer and a fixer of ball games. But if he did not want all that written down for posterity, he did not otherwise deny who and what he was. He flaunted his nature in the same way he flaunted his talent on the playing field -- with vicious abandon. His only virtue was his total lack of hypocrisy...
...Malcolm J. Moldowsky -- a political fixer and Dilbeck's bagman from the sugar lobby -- who worships the sainted memory of John Mitchell. "A dear friend and mentor," says Moldowsky of the former Attorney General and Watergate conspirator. "Savagely maligned...