Word: hotshots
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...trial featured the bleak comedy of Moon's chief counsel, Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe '62, contending with a jury poorly suited to appreciate his subtle arguments. Tribe, a brilliant scholar and appellate hotshot with a poised, aggressive courtroom style--he is 6-2 in Supreme Court arguments--found himself talking to jurors who, as Judge Goettel admitted, "don't know much, because they are obviously the persons who start off with the least bias...
...What we have here is not only dripping but gripping stuff, whose essence might be summarized as: Can a 57-year-old Westport, Conn., salad-dressing manufacturer find satisfaction as a hotshot race-car driver, successful political activist, prizewinning movie director, solid-state sex symbol, show-biz iconoclast and possibly the most commanding male presence in films during the past three decades? If that sounds just a touch overheated, never fear. We have Paul Newman to play the lead...
...talking about the young rich hotshot who drives to the game in a Mercedes with Hereford horns sticking out of the hood. The guy who wears a three-piece suit with cowboy boots and a cowboy hat and thinks he's J.R. Ewing and only eats real Texas chili...
...would be nice if professors taught everything, but a professor would be horribly bored teaching QRA, and he'd never be able to understand people's gaps in understanding." For the same reason, Fridkin says, the teaching fellows generally screen out math prodigies. "Someone who's been a hotshot and thinks it's a breeze won't relate well," he says...
...want to jam you right into the middle of it," says Scott. "Whether you are normally cautious on the road or a hotshot, it upsets nearly everyone. Especially the macho types. It's a heavy landing for them to find out they really can't drive and are nowhere near the limits of the car." For reassurance, the student looks at the special brake pedal installed on the passenger side of Scott's Malibu for the instructor to use if a student panics and freezes...