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...will be difficult for Hart to reinvent himself now. He still obtusely sees his past behavior and dreadful judgment as tactical errors. If somehow he had been able openly to accept his errors for what they were, his comeback might seem more plausible. But there was one happy glint. His personal problems, Hart observed, had brought him a dividend he never imagined. "For a lot of people," he said, "I've become more human. I was always seen as a one-dimensional figure. Now people walk up to me differently. They see me as a person who's suffered. They...
...That tree guarded the world of The Nutcracker, and in my fifth Christmas season, my parent gave me a passport into this land--a ticket to New York's Metropolitan ballet company production of the classic. For five years I returned, savoring every step of the experience from the glint of the gilded chandeliers to the hush of a carpet against Mary-Janed feet...
...shaky at first. "Their idea for a while was to have us all run around on motorcycles," says Glover. "I rode a big old Indian 45 all the way down to maneuvers in Louisiana, 1,500 miles, and then rode it all the way back." There is a glint in his eyes as he talks...
...will not focus on important matters, say, on whether the presidential finding authorizing the Israeli second arms shipment was in compliance with the Hughes-Ryan amendment. Such matters, often referred to as the "facts," are overlooked while the nation takes in Ollie's hair, his uniform, his smile, his glint, his hound-dog eyes and his patriotic speeches. Millions swoon. The sophisticates despair...
...that moment, on the left side of the television screen, another Marine, Oliver North, leaned forward in the witness chair in the Senate Caucus Room, listening, his eyes gone now from disingenuous to wounded, then brightening to a righteous glint...