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...Roosevelt, as he did not have in Reagan, a first-rate central character, whose style and substance foreshadowed the presidencies that would follow. His athletic vigor prefigured John F. Kennedy's. If anything, Roosevelt's White House jujitsu lessons make J.F.K.'s touch football look borderline effete. ("Muscular Christianity without the Christianity" is how somebody once described Teddy's manner.) His use of federal power against the massive industrial monopolies of his day opened the way to the decisive expansion of Washington under his younger relative, F.D.R. Though he came from old money, his inexhaustible democratic appetites--for books, people...
...first volume: He's a lovable lug--funny and slightly sad--with "long tangles of bushy black hair and...hands the size of trash can lids." And just as he does in the book, he makes his entrance on a flying motorcycle, with a baby in his "vast, muscular arms." Harry has arrived, and he has arrived in good health...
...That is a relief for Jacky, a pony-tailed, muscular Chinese who runs the Malaysian operations for one of the people-smuggling syndicates. Always neatly dressed in shirt and tie, Jacky is well aware he looks more like a successful small businessman than criminal enforcer. His wife and three children have no idea what he does for a living. "I have a registered small business and they think I am a very good businessman because I bring in lots of money," he says, laughing. Jacky regards people smuggling as simply another line of business. While he concedes that government supervision...
...more than a muscular version of TiVo, an American TV service that likewise allows commercial-free viewing. It also incorporates some features normally found on computers. A FireWire port links the machine with most digital video cameras and, for simple movie editing, I found it a lot easier than using my PC. And as is true with straight DVD players, searching a disc is a lot less aggravating than searching a tape. One button brings up the menu that allows you to see exactly what's on the disc and from there it's easy to get to that scene...
...should wish you a long silence.” The next piece, significantly, is Murray’s take on the transformation of music in the modern day, written in a purposely unmelodic rhyming pattern, “the hypnotic one like weed-smoke at a party / and the muscular one out of farty / cars that goes Whudda Whudda...