Word: grownups
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...touring the country with minority leader Mitch McConnell, a longtime nemesis on campaign-finance reform, and the two men inveighed against the evils of Obamacare. "He's been constructive. He's been part of the team," says Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. "He's provided the kind of adult, grownup leadership that we need in the Republican caucus." When asked for examples of McCain's maverick nature, Alexander flashes a smile, saying, "I can't think of any." Does that mean Republicans are at last falling in love with McCain? "John dove back in on his issues," says Senator Johnny...
...when I was nine years old, my friends and I were all atwitter about the first X-Men comic book, the new G.I. Joe action figure, the forthcoming Star Trek series, and the Beatles. At home I wore blue jeans and20sneakers, unlike my father or any other grownup I knew, and for my birthday I wanted a set of Mattel walkie-talkies...
...success at an early age; if he stays around long enough, he'll see an endless recycling of his old work while his later work goes ignored. Francis Ford Coppola's first two Godfather films, in 1972 and '74, are among the most revered, and unquestionably the most influential, grownup films of the past half-century. Add The Conversation and his Vietnam movie, Apocalypse Now, and Coppola had one decade, the '70s, as artistically productive as almost any other filmmaker's in history. Yet in his later years, Coppola had trouble getting film financing; and in 2007, when he released...
...these questions on the campaign trail - Well, what do you make of this and what people said about that and that? - and I always felt like, Well, they just don't know me. [Laughter.] I haven't changed. People don't change fundamentally. That, I know as a grownup. You don't change in a year...
Kids do. My children change rapidly over months and years. But once you hit, once you're a grownup, you don't. Your life doesn't make these - you don't internally make these sweeping changes...