Word: handsomest
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...Edgar Bronfman Jr. is certainly the youngest and handsomest of the moguls who own entertainment companies. And ever since he acquired MCA in 1995, Hollywood has been waiting to see whether he would also prove to be one of the smartest. But in the wake of a spate of firings at the company, now called Universal Studios, there is a giant whirring sound as Tinseltown starts to turn on young Bronfman...
...therein lies the trouble with The Hudsucker Proxy, which is the handsomest American movie in years. You really shouldn't be lost in the history of architecture and home furnishing at the movies. Nor should you be wondering why a film supposedly set in 1958, when classic Deco pieces were mostly to be found at the Goodwill, actually evokes aspects of the previous three decades. Most especially you should not be musing about why a movie that wants to be a funny social commentary -- the press kit hopefully evokes the names of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges -- is shot...
...crowd cheers as if Babe Ruth had just gone oh-fer. "All that noise they make gives me an adrenaline boost," says Bichette. "You don't want to embarrass yourself in front of 60,000 fans." First baseman Andres Galarraga, the Venezuelan whose dimpled charisma is the club's handsomest calling card, takes the crowd fervor like medicine. "You can feel tired all day and don't feel good," he says, "but when you come to the stadium and start hearing all that sound, it picks...
Poetic will do. For in his briefing last Wednesday, the coalition commander showed Americans not their handsomest face but their best one. Gruff and compassionate, speaking in flinty, illuminating sentences, Schwarzkopf made sense of the battle plan in its grandeur and awful human cost. Though he is the first U.S. general since Ike to earn gloating rights, he refused to preen. Perhaps he tacitly recognized that Iraq was not the most formidable foe -- closer to Grenada than to Nazi Germany in war-making savvy and casualties inflicted. But one suspects that this man's tone would be the same...