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Despite Hoffman's wonderfully gruff, implosive star performance -- he is so in tune with Dutch's desperation that even his murderous rages are sullen -- this is at heart a movie about the power of a beautiful, fearless woman. In Kidman, an improbable amalgam of Sigourney Weaver and Melanie Griffith, Benton found Drew's embodiment. Toward the end, when she flies out of two men's lives, she seems an airborne goddess of artful deceit...
...resignation of Gutfreund puts an end to one of Wall Street's most fabled careers. A gruff-talking, cigar-chomping bond trader, Gutfreund became chairman of Salomon in 1978. According to Liar's Poker, a 1989 best seller by Michael Lewis that described Salomon as a sort of financial Animal House, Gutfreund exhorted traders to come to work each morning "ready to bite the ass off a bear." When the traders were not executing centimillion-dollar deals, they delighted in such pranks as dumping garbage on one another's desks and replacing the contents of a male colleague's suitcase...
...partocrats," local apparatchiks with considerable administrative authority, squirmed in embarrassment as Yeltsin forced them to listen to the grievances of local folk. "Why is your vice-presidential candidate ((Alexander Rutskoi)) a Communist?" asked a gruff peasant. "Communists can work well," Yeltsin responded. "They can in essence be honest people." In the village of Muslyumovo, north of Chelyabinsk, where the fallout from nuclear waste and a 1957 nuclear disaster still pollutes the environment, Yeltsin was clearly moved by anguished demands for greater government response to the village's medical needs. Then, like a benevolent Czar in a Russian folktale, he promised...
While Yeltsin tries to look presidential, the verbal slanging has been left to his choice for vice president, Alexander Rutskoi, a gruff air force colonel who was captured during the war in Afghanistan and given his country's highest award for valor, Hero of the Soviet Union. A leader of the Communists for Democracy reform movement, Rutskoi told reporters last week that he simply could not understand "why Ryzhkov would even consider running for president after what he managed to do during five years as prime minister...
Grumpy Gus Cup: HENRY GONZALEZ Fellow members of the House Banking Committee gripe that the septuagenarian Democrat spews a lot of gruff talk but has a poor grasp on the regulatory challenges of a financial-system overhaul...