Word: minuses
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...only have to achieve something once." He still directs plays back home, but he's become a convert to film, enchanted with the ability of movie vets like Hanks and Newman to stay in character through rain, sleet or snow: "It could be 5 a.m., pissing down rain and minus 30 degrees--they've still got their fingers on the triggers. They are able to fire whenever required...
...meet my parents. I had painstakingly concocted a route by which I could totally bypass Amtrak: New Jersey Transit to Trenton, then switch to the local SEPTA train, which would take me to Philadelphia and eventually Wilmington - all for the low, low price of $16. For the same ride (minus, of course, the inconvenience of transferring) on Amtrak's unreserved Northeast Direct line...
SINCE SHE'S THERE WITH YOU, COULD PATTY GIVE YOU A GRADE FOR YOUR DEVELOPMENT? Patty, would you like to give me a grade on my development over the past four years? Yeah, like a school grade. A, B-plus or an A-minus, she says. I don't know where that means I started... What? She said I started at D. I was a good dad, but I guess that was the only thing that kept me from failing...
...Last week, he described relations with his ex as "very strained," diplomatic words given that she told Britain's Daily Mail days before that he was a "sociopath." His second marriage, to singer Patty Smyth, has been more successful. Smyth gives her husband a "B-plus or an A-minus" for his recent personal growth. (Four years ago, she'd have given him a D.) McEnroe also says he's a "good dad" and that fatherhood "was the only thing that kept me from failing" totally. These days, his happiest times are at the dinner table, when all six kids...
...Minus the Olympians, the Crimson (18-11-2, 9-5-2 ECAC North), swept Princeton in the first round of the ECAC North playoffs and ultimately lost to Dartmouth 4-2 in the semifinals...