Word: gooders
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Republican Convention as a Rockefeller volunteer and is astonished by the opulence of the Fontainebleu Hotel; she orders room service, and "I can still see the giant fresh peach that came wrapped in a napkin." In her way, Hillary Rodham--the awkward Midwestern grind, the Methodist too-gooder--is as much of an outsider as Bill Clinton. Her swoon is inevitable, her willful blindness to his flaws almost understandable. Almost...
...reason that the character Peter Parker (a.k.a. Spider-Man) and many of the other Marvel comic-book heroes strike a chord with my generation is that Parker is a conflicted young man. Our connection to his confusion makes him much more relevant than the do-gooder musclemen that DC Comics and others have produced. That Hollywood could stay so true to Spider-Man's character is admirable indeed. Moviemakers should have opened the comics a long time ago, really read them and listened to comic-book artists and writers. After Spider-Man racks up several hundred million by staying true...
After that? Family law. But in the meantime she may as well take a breather and reflect on an illustrious career as Harvard’s ultimate do-gooder wannabe socialite. She describes it best herself, and in rhyme to boot: “Now Theta, Now Isis, Now the Pudding and more/ I guess I became a kind of social club whore...
...Windmills cafe in Paris, Amelie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) is one of the legion of shy solitaries that few people seek out and fewer movies think to put at their center. But inside this gamine child of 23 is a priestess of the imagination, a ruthless schemer, a canny do-gooder, a lover. She has mischief in her, and a kind of secular sainthood...
...understand that delicate and ambitious pursuit, you must enter the world of Bill and Jac--a relationship between two very different men half a generation apart. Simply speaking, Ford is the impassioned do-gooder, the green-tea-drinking fly-fisherman who has a hard time saying no to any worthy cause. Nasser is the corporate hardass who just as easily might have run the old, secretive Ford Motor and reveled in it. "When you look at how important openness has become for Ford [Motor], you have to remember that Bill has always been that way," says a longtime insider...