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...image of America, at least as the nation once fancied itself: rural, righteous, ornery, stubborn in its idealism, never picking a fight and never backing away from one. To look at his scarecrow physique and the long, gawky strides, as if he were making his way across a pond by stepping on turtles' backs, you'd never guess Stewart was a movie star. But that's what helped make him one: his extraordinary ordinariness...
While at the College, Stephens volunteered in Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) Fresh Pond Enrichment program, where he taught Windows 95 and an Internet-related curriculum to disadvantaged students...
Taylor is by nature a shy man, most comfortable expressing himself through his music, but in a recent in-depth interview with TIME, he reflected on how those ordeals became rites of passage. "I feel like I'm a man now," he said, gazing toward a misty saltwater pond outside his home on Martha's Vineyard. "I used to think you were a man when you were 30. In my case it was not true. But you come to a time in life when you have to step forward. It's too late for me to be a boy anymore...
China's top leadership, now that Deng Xiaoping is gone, looks like the ducks on a quiet pond in Zhongnanhai, the palatial government compound in Beijing. The ducks swim along serenely and smoothly. But below the surface their legs are paddling furiously, spreading unseen turbulence. They may or may not change places in their parade, but everyone watching knows that real effort goes into...
This is good strong stuff, not least because, as Newell says, Paul Attanasio's adaptation of Pistone's book offers "this absolutely novel point of view about the Mob," dealing as it does "with the lowest rung, the have-nots. I loved being at the bottom of the pond." So, obviously, did Depp. "He absorbs so much," says the wondering Pistone, with whom Depp hung out for weeks, perfecting all his mannerisms--right down to a nervous cough--that "he doesn't try. It just comes to him. And he remembers everything. He's like a sponge...