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...like to show it. For those who knew Rice before she joined the Administration, it's striking how little Washington seems to have changed her. (I met her as an undergraduate at Stanford more than 10 years ago, when Rice was provost there.) In person, Rice has a knack for immediately putting others at ease, asking about their lives before the conversation inevitably turns to hers. She fields questions by whispering, "Yeah," to signal she understands, then launches into answers so fluent that they almost sound rehearsed. It helps that she's working before everyone else: when...
...even when Murphy and his staff haven’t been in direct competition with preeminent football colleges, they have shown a knack for landing the perfect prospects for their system—from Fitzpatrick, the St. Louis Rams’ newest signal caller, to defensive anchor Bobby Everett...
...frustrated Ivy offenses will tell you, Murphy has always had a knack for being in the right place at the right time...
Peyroux's throaty alto carries uncanny echoes of Billie Holiday. She has the same knack of languorously lagging behind the beat, bending her notes into microtones of aching and yearning. But the style, the subtle phrasing, seems natural to Peyroux--lived, not learned. Besides, it isn't Holiday's stylistic flourishes that interest her primarily. Holiday exemplified a line of female blues and jazz singers who "presented the women's side of things, the underdog point of view," says Peyroux. "It was a new form of women's self-expression...
Liman has a knack for making bad luck work for him. That first shot is a good example: the Smiths are trying couples counseling, and their unfamiliarity with each other as actors and as people plays perfectly onscreen as the awkward distance of a husband and wife who have become strangers. But Liman's MacGyver-like improvisational style can come at a price. "It was a very hard shoot," he admits. "I don't necessarily go into a movie with the characters figured out." He built an entire snow-covered mountain on a Fox sound stage, then scrapped it when...