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...designed to make a client look good. "How can I say no," Fink asks, "when they have sent me other blockbuster items?" Smart press agents know how to manipulate a client's image by choosing what charities and causes to support. However inconvenient the information that is circulating about oneself or one's client, it is considered a big mistake to lie outright. Some Hollywood observers were critical of Tom Cruise for going out of his way, in the weeks preceding the breakup of his marriage, to proclaim the relationship solid...
These occasional distractions tend to make the early stages of Broadway Bound slow going. But as the play gets under way, the quality of the performances eclipses such minor technical problems, and it becomes difficult to avoid immersing oneself in the drama of the Brooklyn family's troubles...
...must know something that I haven't discovered yet. He must have sensed that this whole notion of preparing oneself for post-graduation can be very overwhelming. It's as if I now have to plan my entire life in just seven more months. And still write a thesis...
...make the connection between such outrages and a permanent government that too often is up for sale to private interests. The notion that public service might require some sacrifice has become a quaint relic. Working in government, instead, has come to be seen as a way to enrich ! oneself. Public officials remain endlessly capable of rationalizing the trading of their office for private gain: we don't get paid enough; everybody does it; we could make much more in the private sector...
...work "too hard," lest one become a geek, and talking with professors--often the best way to learn--is thought of as "brown-nosing." Much admired is the student who can get a "B" without studying, which detracts from more important pastimes such as playing a sport, partying oneself into senselessness, or watching TV and gossiping the night away...