Word: moment
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...crave the whole fame thing at all. I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things. I feel blessed that I can still do those things without too much worry. When there is a moment when I'm recognized, people are invariably gracious and very effusive about how they feel about my books. All in all, it's a very beautiful thing...
...play starring Langella as Nixon and Michael Sheen as Frost. Langella and Sheen (and Morgan) repeat their roles in the Ron Howard movie version opening today. Both the movie and the interviews (now available on DVD as Frost Nixon: The Original Watergate Interviews) are essential evocations of a unique moment in American history - when the only President ever to resign his office sat down for his own TV inquisition. (See pictures of TIME's Watergate covers...
...movie revs up to the gotcha moment when Frost traps Nixon into acknowledging his Watergate crimes and apologizing to the country. The reality is a tad more ambiguous. Frost is magnificent when, having pressed Nixon to say he made more than mistakes, Nixon asks him what word he would suggest. He tosses his clipboard aside and presents a three-count indictment - still a thrilling TV frisson. Nixon does say he let the country down, but couches his confession is so many subordinate clauses that he could leave the ring believing Frost's knockout was only technical. If the exchange lacks...
...seek refuge in the Belarusian forest and escape the Nazis. Zwick was inspired to document this unique and moving narrative after a friend showed him an obituary in the New York Times for Zus Bielski, one of the brothers. “It was a story of a familiar moment but a very unfamiliar story within that moment,” Zwick said. “That they were reluctant heroes, that they were complex, ordinary, unsophisticated men who discovered something fine, even magnificent in themselves...that to me is a very inspiring notion that people can rise to occasions...
...whispered. “Forgive me.”Felicity found herself trembling, too. She turned her face away, and Roxanna leaned forward to press her lip against Felicity’s cheek. A penitent kiss, she thought: the kiss of peace. But at the last moment Felicity turned her face and Roxanna’s kiss landed clumsily on Felicity’s mouth.Soft lip brushed against soft lip. Both women froze. And then the kiss went on and deepened. Felicity’s hands slid from Roxanna’s shoulders down her creamy back. Roxanna?...