Word: humes
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...observers savored the irony of a stone thrower whose glass house was shattering. "Most Americans didn't fall for his ruse about kicking 'the media,'" says media analyst Ellen Hume. "He is the media. On the drug issue, we could give him the benefit of the doubt. But why give him a fairness clause that he denies others? Rush's way is to rush to judgment, regardless of the facts. Now it's his turn to be judged." And his turn to hope that the judges may be just a little bit...liberal. --Reported by Sean Gregory/New York...
...Hume Cronyn on the Craft of Acting In his career of more than 60 years, actor Hume Cronyn, who died last month [Milestones, June 30], portrayed a wide variety of characters, ranging from a shipwreck survivor in Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 Lifeboat to a grumpy old man in the Cocoon comedies of the 1980s. He talked to TIME about acting as a profession in an April 2, 1990, article...
...idea of "self-evident" truths was one that drew less on Locke, who was Jefferson's favored philosopher, than on the scientific determinism espoused by Isaac Newton and the analytic empiricism of Franklin's close friend David Hume. In what became known as "Hume's fork," the great Scottish philosopher had developed a theory that distinguished between "synthetic" truths that describe matters of fact (such as "London is bigger than Philadelphia") and "analytic" truths that are so by virtue of reason and definition ("the angles of a triangle total 180 degrees"; "all bachelors are unmarried"). Hume referred to the latter...
...DIED. HUME CRONYN, 91, wiry, perfectionist actor who infused his ordinary, often cranky characters with bubbling intensity; of prostate cancer; in Fairfield, Conn. An amateur boxer in his native Canada, he first won acclaim for his vivid portrayals in such films as The Postman Always Rings Twice (as a Machiavellian lawyer) and Brute Force (as a sadistic prison guard). He often appeared with his wife of 52 years, Jessica Tandy, who died in 1994. Their teamwork spanned nearly half a century--in films from The Seventh Cross in 1944 (as a couple aiding an escapee from the Nazis...
...DIED. HUME CRONYN, 91, legendary actor of American stage and screen; in Fairfield, Connecticut. The Canadian-born star got his big break on Broadway in 1935 in the Three Men on a Horse, and made his film debut in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt in 1943. Cronyn and his wife and longtime stage partner, Jessica Tandy, were inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 1979, and each won a Tony for special lifetime theatrical achievement in 1994; Tandy died later that year. Cronyn once said he found film easier than the stage, but less satisfying: "My heart...