Word: muscularity
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...Jack, frankly, is an anachronism. A lot of his dialogue could be comfortably fitted into a contemporary Owen Wilson romantic farce, and a lot of his more muscular activities are desperate existential improvisations. Depp lets us see his mental gears whirring (and very often clanking) before he takes action that in some way subverts everyone's expectations. You might say that he?s the anti-Errol Flynn...
...will that lead to more conflict with other countries, even another cold war? Repayments Churchill's old saw about russia being a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma continues to have force now that the Iron Curtain has long since been pulled back. Moscow's more muscular approach to the world has roots in its domestic politics. And there, a contradictory welter of good and bad developments contend for dominance, giving the Kremlin cause for both expansive confidence and prickly insecurity. The economy is booming. Since 1999, growth averaging more than 6% a year has produced a cumulative...
...also may be a problem for the U.S. diplomatic efforts to enlist its Asian allies to help curtail North Korea's nuclear ambitions. Under Koizumi - who travels this week to the U.S., making stops both in Washington and at Graceland - Japan has taken a more muscular role in world affairs and sent troops to Iraq. The changes have been warmly welcomed in Washington, which has long wanted Japan to shoulder more responsibility for its own defense and become a more substantial counterweight to the regional ambitions of China and North Korea. The U.S. has been alone among the other nations...
Like De Laurentiis, Goin is a slight, lovely woman, although for foodies and fellow chefs, her most alluring feature may be her hands, which are muscular, perdurable, earthy--the hands of a woman who can butcher a side of pig as easily as she can pluck the leaves from a gossamer sprig of thyme. Recently Vogue called her "the culinary world's answer to Audrey Hepburn." I would say she's more Katharine Hepburn, but the point is that both chefs project a sense that you can have your cake and hide it too. But how? Do they...
...collective process in which civility, fairness, respect for critical feedback, and the scrupulous avoidance of conflicts of interest are indispensable.Enter Larry Summers. The 1991 “toxic waste” memo that Summers signed while World Bank chief economist was worrisome enough. But Summers’ muscular display at Harvard’s bully pulpit replaced our worry with fear. Soon after 9/11, Summers delivered a speech urging the University to be more patriotic and directing the Kennedy School to give its next public service award to a military official. Such a demand smacks of McCarthyism and threatens...