Word: flaws
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...underneath. When he speaks, his voice has the delicate cadence of a professor singing out the most violent passages of Macbeth with a studied calm. He has, it seems, left his globe-striding, Gulfstream-riding, options-exercising CEO persona somewhere on the other side of this megadeal. The only flaw in this picture, frankly, is a fist-size interactive pager that is dancing between Levin's palm and his pocket. The pager chirps from time to time, and Levin pops it from its slate-gray plastic case, uses a thumbwheel to scroll through a few messages and then slips...
...scandal was so riveting: it was a true story that was better scripted than fiction. It began as John Grisham, with big-haired, twangy-voiced Paula Jones alleging sexual improprieties in a Little Rock hotel room. It ended as Shakespeare, with a powerful leader nearly felled by a tragic flaw. And it was propelled by characters a Hollywood screenwriter would kill to have dreamed up: the giggling intern, the treacherous best friend...
This doesn't mean that Robbins tries to be all things to all people, a fatal flaw of most directors who try to attract mainstream audiences. Clearly he had a very specific vision in mind for this film, which is theatrical in style and pointedly liberal in its mosaic-like reconstruction of a chapter of American history. Robbins wins us over by playing it fast and loose with material that could easily have appeared dry and familiar, so that the occasional weak link and oversimplification in the film's interlocking web of stories seems irrelevant in the face...
...Only the WRC was developed with the help of factory workers," McKean told the crowd at Holyoke Center, the final stop on Friday's tour. "Harvard, however, prefers to work with corporations. They're in the FLA, which we say as 'flaw...
...potential of being the last, and we take care not to treat any as "normal." Firefighters are not action movie heroes, throwing ourselves indiscriminately into walls of advancing flame. We respect each fire, know its force and know when it is time to retreat. Occasionally we miscalculate, a flaw of our human nature, and that sometimes means fire will claim a victim. When we lose brothers to fire, we all realize that any one of us could have fallen just as easily, and then we renew our vows to fight fire as safely...