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...leaders have strong libidos; the President may be flawed, but look what he has done. "You don't think Abraham Lincoln was a whore before he was a President?" Stanton asks his aide Henry Burton. "He had to tell his little stories and smile his s___-eating back-country grin. He did it all just so he'd get the opportunity to stand in front of the nation and appeal to the better angels of our nature." It's enough to persuade Henry, but those watching the film know more than he does: five years of scandal and accomplishment, victory...
...this middle-aged man, who himself is not noticeably different from any of my parents' friends? And what happened in those intervening years? How does one metamorphose out of a gangly 22 year-old, posing with an awkwardly self-conscious smirk, into a stolid 47 year-old whose smug grin is nothing if not genuine and unaffected...
...however, a dark horse among the drinking crowd, one that is clamorously making a name for itself-Hooper's Hooch. An alcoholic lemonade drink with a no-nonsense name, the Hooch has launched a full-assault media blitz worthy of Stalinist propaganda campaign. The company advertisement--a lemon-man grinning a broad, Jack Nicholson-esque grin as he clutches a bottle of Hooch in his leafy fist--is plastered onto the walls of every subway car in motion. Bottles of Hooch can not only be found behind nearly every bar in Moscow but, more frighteningly, at most hot dog stands...
...Harvard Yard, I added a little twist. I bought a fistful of harmonicas and a cheap guitar. Suddenly, I knew what I wanted to be: Bob Dylan--or, at the very least, a living legend. I was in dire need of some practice, but I thought that with a grin and a fancy guitar pick, I'd be able...
...loss to articulate the mechanics of her whirlwind style, Lipinski once said, "I just rotate." In a fairy-tale blue-and-yellow frock, she flew to the Anastasia sound track, whipping through her triple flip, exploding into a grin that dwarfed her 80-lb. frame and skating circles around everyone but Kwan. Then the 17-year-old veteran showed that having soul as well as legs counts. Kwan drew out the chords of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor into a smooth legato line as she flowed, left leg extended, straight toward the panel of judges. When...