Word: humphreyism
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...cutie or victim, Oscar went for the latter. Marlon Brando's Stanley Kowalski in the 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the major revolutionary performances in movies; it announced the arrival of the Method actor and the sexy brute in one galvanizing package. Yet Brando lost to Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen. The Academy went for old style over new, as it did in withholding Oscars from Brando's more sensitive brethren, Montgomery Clift and James Dean. Both were multiple nominees; neither won. And like Heath Ledger--who in Brokeback Mountain gave a bold, pioneering performance--neither...
...fairness to the grownups, the kids themselves need to relax too. "I'm a kid who stays focused and works hard," says Connor Humphrey, an earnest 14-year-old football and lacrosse player in New Canaan, Conn. "I have goals for the future. I want to play lacrosse at Duke." That dream is commendable, but while pushing young bodies to the limit may mean more time in the game, it can just as easily mean a lifetime on the bench...
...What’s worse, the Democratic Party knows it’s un-Democratic. In 1968, after the ludicrous nomination of then-Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the Democratic Party reformed the selection process to give more “power to the people.” Unlike the past, when nominations were decided by the elites of the Democratic Party (think “superdelegates”), votes in the primaries and caucuses would actually receive their due. Hence 3,253 delegates and 796 superdelegates...
...times: our country has apparently descended into a kind of navel-gazing at a time when the world is changing very fast, and we're struggling to produce popular culture. So much solicitude is touching. But hang on: what about American culture seen from Paris? Brad Pitt, successor of Humphrey Bogart? Madonna, heiress of Billie Holiday? Edouard Launet, IN LIBÉRATION...
Five years ago, two big-city businessmen visited Dale Humphrey, mayor of a small town called Popcorn, Ind. (pop. about 50). They had just the kernel of an idea for a business--gourmet popcorn--and visited the town on a whim. Humphrey charmed them with stories about his neighbors, passionate farmers who lived and breathed to harvest corn. Inspired, the two entrepreneurs started selling online and opened up a small shop in Manhattan, getting most of their product from the good people of Popcorn...