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...rowing career is almost done," he ruminates. "It's going to leave a hole in my life, but I see it as time to move on. I'll look back on it with fond memories...
...could flip-flop that question. How bad do I want Letterman? The only conversations we've had are on the show. I like to think he's fond...
...also, of course, the first great Jewish sports hero, at a time when anti-Semitism was open and virulent, and he carried that burden with exemplary grace too. His bat spoke for his people, and many boys of summer, now grown old, return that favor in this documentary's fond recollections. Sharing its subject's virtues, it is a lovely addition to the annals of the Greatest Generation...
...justify the way they fight, U.S. Military Officers are fond of quoting Confederate general Nathan Forrest's admonition to "git thar fustest with the mostest." But increasingly, even Army generals agree they have been emphasizing the "mostest" at the expense of the "fustest." The Army has a cold war hangover: the war machines of a U.S. armored division tip the scales at 300,000 tons. It took the molasses-like movement of the Army's AH-64 Apache helicopters to Albania during last year's Kosovo conflict to make planners publicly admit this is no way to fight...
...they all fall in love, in different ways. Of course the guys behave stupidly at the end of Act 2, so there can be an Act 3. Like most recent films, it's long on running time and short on visual elegance. But it has a warming reticence, a fond awareness of its characters' frailties. Elfman is a natural; she radiates. And Norton is excellent at playing that rarity, a man with a heart both cunning and innocent. He even dyed his hair blond because "I wanted Brian to have a halo--a sun-kissed, God-touched kind of thing...