Word: flinch
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...lack of issues, or of partisans. Since it was put forward for public comment eleven months ago, the regulation has sparked 120,000 responses, including objections from agencies of all 38 states that aired their views. Opponents branded it the "squeal rule." The Reagan Administration did not flinch. "We've built a Berlin Wall between the kid and the parents," insisted Secretary of Health and Human Services Richard Schweiker. The new rule, he added, is "a reasonable balance" between the need to offer such services and the need not to undermine the role of parents...
...that it arose under the once impassive gaze of the three major networks. For three decades they ruled television news without serious threat and smugly claimed that no one else could put together the resources to compete. Ted Turner has challenged them at their own game, and made them flinch. Suddenly ABC, CBS and NBC are providing or planning
...overdoses on pain in order to prove himself to himself. In Barbarosa, Willie Nelson lies placidly in his own new grave; he cauterizes his own stomach wound with flaming gunpowder; an enemy's bullet creases his cheek-not a word, not a whine, not so much as a flinch. In The Challenge, Scott Glenn dines on live eels and beetles; stands buried up to his neck in dirt for five days; gets karated or garroted every five minutes. So reads the code of the Old West (in Barbarosa) and modern Japan (in The Challenge): the rite of passage...
...almost as surprised; they beamed and squeezed each other's hands in celebration. "By God, we've done it," whispered Rhode Island Assistant Attorney General Stephen Famiglietti. But as Jury Foreman Barbara Connett twice pronounced the verdict "Guilty," Claus von Bülow, 55, did not even flinch. Except for a flush of bright crimson in his cheeks, he was completely impassive, as he had been throughout the nine-week trial. His urbane façade finally crumbled a few minutes later when he placed a call to his 14-year-old daughter in New York. Hearing...
...While his brother butts heads and creates scenes DeNiro is the man of greatness who always remains smooth, suave, and political. They are Iago and Othello, in a way. And, of course, DeNiro falls, but he falls with style. He never twists or shouts or disclaims. He won't flinch. DeNiro is a hero for a time that suffers from loss of nerve...