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...small, almost gentle features are stranded in his moon of a face. And no fellow shaped like a nose tackle is going to cut a chic figure in those desert jammies. You look for John Wayne, and you find Jonathan Winters crossed with Willard Scott: a lunch- pail lug who should be shambling into the Cheers bar to a chorus of "Norm!" Norm? Is that any name for a general? And is it absurd or poetic that the successor to Arnold Schwarzenegger as America's favorite macho man should be H. Norman Schwarzkopf...
...nuisance to lug around gas masks and protective gear, but no one complains. For the troops on the ground, the greatest fear is of chemical attack, a strike by an enemy they cannot see. "You imagine walking around, and your buddy is lying on the ground having convulsions, and you have to inject him with atropine," says Private First Class Myra Camacho, 26, of Brooklyn, N.Y. That is why the troops love the chickens...
...demonstrate the foolishness of the system,Smith recounts the monumental inefficiency of theSoviet trucking industry. Since transportation ismeasured in kilogram-miles, Soviet truckers preferto lug heavy cargoes of lumber halfway across thecountry, rather than trying to minimizetransportation costs...
Here's an example. There's this lug in your cast with the acting range of an oak tree, who reads his lines like a zombie with hemorrhoids. But he's a plodder, practicing for hours, week after week, and suddenly--maybe a week before your performance--life begins to creep into his performance: the gestures become bigger and more fluent, the line readings more flamboyant and on-target, and you convince yourself, in the euphoria of the opening, that he is giving a good performance...
...grow familiar, Goodman shows a knack for making the best of tired circumstances: as an alcoholic ex- bartender in Stella, he is just about the only credible touch in a film reeking of Hollywood sham. In Roseanne Goodman has created a full-blooded portrait of a working-class lug, equally credible whether giving heartfelt advice to a teenage daughter or doing boisterous pirouettes in a bowling alley. He seems to mesh perfectly with Barr; Goodman can be deferential even while he is stealing the show...