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...officers to dismantle them, and to return them to the Soviet Union") lifted the clouds of crisis. John Kennedy, tired but quietly jubilant, stood in the bright October sun on the porch outside the Oval Office where he and his aides had fashioned a solution during 13 days of nail-biting cerebration. Kennedy thrust his hands deep into his coat pockets, a familiar tic that signaled he was back in high fettle. He ducked his head with the small self-conscious smile of the winner he always wanted to be, muttered something about not messing up the weekend entirely...
...midst of the Great Depression of the 1930s, Charles Revson introduced opaque nail polish and created Revlon Inc. Ever since, the cosmetics industry has been regarded as a good business even for bad times. Women, the theory went, could always be counted on to spend at least some of what little disposable income they had to look attractive and feel good about themselves...
...film's grace derives in part from Director Tim Hunter's brisk and unpretentious style, an ability to find the values in a scene efficiently, nail them down and move on unfussily. One would like to call it American classicism, if that phrase did not have such a forbidding ring to it. Mostly, however, the joy of the film arises from the acting of its central roles. As Mason, Jim Metzler conveys solidity without stolidity, commonsensicality without priggishness. It is the sort of self-effacing work that often, unfairly, gets overlooked in the movies. That is especially...
...what makes it tick than ever will be learned by some young fellow from 500 or 1000 or 2000 miles away that some consultant tells you got good ratings there." In fact, he says, "That slightly tousled codger is going to exude more believability and integrity from the nail on the finger of his left hand than that pompadours, pampered announcer is ever going to muster. And isn't that what our news departments are all about, isn't that what you really want to sell: authority, believability, credibility and integrity...
...outrageous abuse of the judicial process. Chapter 11 is not intended for corporations with $2.2 billion in sales that are operating in the black." Vowed Ronald L. Motley, a Barnwell, S.C., attorney whose firm represents more than 3,000 claimants: "We're going to fight them tooth and nail in bankruptcy court...