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...tilting at windmills," notes roommate Christopher Ford '89. "Sometimes he tilts very well. Sometimes he tilts less well. There's a side of him that enjoys the Spartans at Thermopylae--standing against the hordes...
Current majority leader Tom Foley's anticipated move to Speaker would satisfy the Democrats' need for an ethically pure successor. Squeaky clean and conciliatory, Foley could be to the Democrats what Jerry Ford was to the Republicans after Richard Nixon: a healing, avuncular presence and a guarantee that the congressional leadership would cease to be a staple on the nightly news. Despite some scurrilous efforts to spread rumors about him, Foley seems a shoo-in. "Only the Angel Gabriel could beat him," said one Congressman...
...Ford thinks the way Bogie talked, and he takes an old-fashioned movie star's pleasure in the craft of filmmaking. "I love to work," he says. "I like doing something difficult and complicated. It's like setting yourself in a maze and learning the maze so you always come out in the right place at the right time. I'm a technical actor. For me, acting is part intellectual, part mechanical. It's being in control of your mind and body at the same time. The emotions you show may be spontaneous, but the bricks have to be carefully...
...fool around with Ford, or Indy. In the film's prologue, young Jones is chased and chastened by a band of scavengers. The gang's leader tells Indy, "You lost today, kid. But that doesn't mean you have to like it." Real-life flashback: when Ford was about young Indy's age, he entered a junior high school where, he recalls, "the favorite recess activity was to take me to the edge of a sharply sloping parking lot, throw me off, wait for me to struggle back to the top, then throw me off again. The entire school would...
...Other people gave up," Ford says of his hard-won acting eminence. "I don't give up. That's all." A good man to make a movie with, if you're Lucas and Spielberg and Connery. A great quartet of storytellers to watch riding off into the everlasting sunset at the end of Indiana Jones' last and best crusade...