Word: mr
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...pathos of a lover driven to humiliate his mistress and himself. "I knew Graham Greene," he says, "and I knew he had a Vietnamese girlfriend. So I used his accent and his attitudes--very upper middle class--for Fowler. I was playing an alter ego of Graham's: his Mr. Hyde to his Dr. Jekyll." As Fowler's shadings turn darker, Caine paints him with stronger strokes. It was an exhausting process. "Every Friday night I'd have dinner with my wife, and I'd say, 'I've got nothing left. I'm empty.' I had disappeared into the part...
What makes Ali (Mr. G?) hilarious is his straight-faced belief that he's smarter than his subjects. Touring the U.N., he seizes on a place card reserving a seat for JORDAN. How, he demands, can the body give so much power to one basketball player? Later he asks why Africa is not represented. Pointing to the G section, an official notes that Guinea is in Africa. "So you claim," Ali sneers. Check and mate...
...Crimson editorial staff, not yet lawyers, would point out what every law student knows, that the difference between lawmaking and lawfinding gets blurred at the edges. Hence, the editorial wants to know how Mr. Estrada interprets the law. That used to mean loosely or strictly, with reference to the powers of Congress. Now it often means, are you an activist in support of privacy-autonomy rights or property rights...
...viewpoints. It doesn’t get much more cerebral than the shout-out in “Bleeding Brain Grow” on the recent album Paullelujah!, his first LP: “Eve, Mika, RZA, Evil JD, Nasir is Osiris, and J-live, AZ, Rakim, Cormega, Cage, Mr. OC: I’m anomie...
...Saturday night this guy, whom we’ll call Mr. Freestyla’, walked into the Grille and started flowing to a beat that was playing in the background—a flow about “the chick behind the grille” and how he’d like to “take me to his crib.” Keep in mind, Mr. Freestyla’ was a little white boy (sophomore) and while he was decent at freestyling and even decent looking, he was clearly drunk and at a complete loss for inhibition...