Word: neatness
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...straight line through his trigger finger and by the leap of the bullet into the fear-rigid Viet Cong's brain: a crisp extinction. The weird surprise of death, the pop into non-being. In the TV version, the man falls like a short tree and his head pours neat but urgent blood upon the street, as from a vial...
...nearest thing to a central figure, then, was Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, who had organized both arms operations and thought that combining them was a "neat idea." North was a can-do, much decorated veteran of Viet Nam. Though Reagan had fired him from the National Security Council, he had also called him a "national hero." North became an overnight television star when he appeared in his uniform and medals and began his often emotional testimony by saying "I came here to tell you the truth -- the good, the bad and the ugly." North admitted he had engaged...
Once, historical-architecture buffs had to prowl in the rubbish of demolition companies to rescue radiators and doors to gentrify their old buildings. But Israel, 40, founder and president of a neat little business called the Great American Salvage Co., has made junk sorting obsolete. His firm, based in Montpelier, Vt., scouts the Eastern states for grand old homes, hotels, theaters and churches that are being modernized or are coming down completely. After negotiating a salvage contract with the buildings' owners, his band of gung-ho reclamation experts carefully removes architectural details. These are spiffed up and sold -- primarily...
...cast Jim Brooks -- no relation -- in his own second film, Modern Romance) is the all-time appealing schlemiel, notably in a laugh-nightmare when he anchors the network news and sweats his career down the tubes. (Says one appalled technician: "This is more than Nixon ever sweated.") Hurt is neat too, never standing safely outside his character, always allowing Tom to find the humor in his too-rapid success, locating a dimness behind his eyes when Tom is asked a tough question -- and for Tom, poor soulless sensation-to-be, all questions are tough ones. As for Hunter, she graduates...
...really neat," Agostini says. "They came in a limousine, rolled out the red carpet, and the crowd just went crazy. There was a justice of the peace there, and they had a really nice ceremony...