Word: friendship
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...erudite but colloquial lyrics evoke the folksy smarts of the Indigo Girls; when she turns up the volume, her determinedly individualistic style of rock invites comparisons to Liz Phair. This album is like an encounter with an old college chum on the street, all the half-remembered rhythms of friendship coming back with unexpected ease...
Which is just fine with him. "Rowing wouldn't be the same if it were on TV all the time and we were free agents," says the Buffalo, N.Y.-born Smith, 32. "It's not about money. It's about dedication and competition and friendship...
...wise and earnest manner he spoke, people listened. He made a lot of fast friends. He cared about people: ask those who worked under him when he was Peace Corps director. Through good times and bad, he was at my side--advising and strengthening me by his love and friendship. Paul was doing the same for our eldest son, helping him navigate the tricky waters of the Senate, quietly advising him on whom he could depend. He left behind a lasting legacy that if you treat people with unfailing kindness, you earn respect. We Bushes loved...
...first day at school, the asthmatic boy (Manuel Lozano) wets his pants in anxiety. But his teacher (Fernando Fernan Gomez), a genius in caring for young minds, sees promise in the child. Thus begins a lovely friendship, tested to the breaking point in a Spanish village at the beginning of the Civil War. This art-house weepie, based on stories by Manuel Rivas, is impeccably Miramaxian in its Bambi-eyed child, its liberal attitude and its emotion-cuing score. O.K., but we fell for it--for the deft mood setting and the canny vignettes of young love and adult rancor...
...sure it would do much for American-Canadian friendship to go into more detail. Students wishing to pursue the subject, however, might explore fatal comparisons in the area of humor...