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...climax. It creates a clash of strong figures engaged in a recreation as elemental as love or war, and with just as much foreplay, anxiety, strategy, abrasion and betrayal. In The Program, one of the few movies to offer clear-eyed criticism of modern athletics, the players psych themselves up for a game by spitting in each other's mouths, and they define their love for the game as "goin' to war with the other guys. Settin' ourselves apart." When they work, sports films, like sports, compress the emotions and battles of life...
...said Gore's chief of staff Jack Quinn, "was to demonstrate that the stuff Perot has been putting out about NAFTA was garbage." Gore spent most of Tuesday reading alone. Meanwhile, in an effort to set the volatile billionaire on edge, White House aides publicly called Perot "crazy." The psych-out war paid off: when Perot began arguing about the ground rules in his very first exchange with Gore, officials watching the debate at the White House resorted to quiet high- fives. Wooden never looked so good...
...says he handled about 75% of his own stunt work, get over his fears? "I didn't," he says. "I was just able to manage it. I'd sit near the edge. Then I would move about 5 ft. closer, 2 ft. closer, not look down, psych myself out. Then when they'd lower me down on a cable to a rock face that might be 4,000 or 5,000 ft. straight down, I would look straight out and say over and over, 'Don't look down; don't look down...
Striking back in an attempt to crumble Perot's support, White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater told reporters Perot was "a paranoid person who has delusions." That pop-psych diagnosis was motivated by politics, of course, but it also squared with Perot's long history of obsession with plots. In one of his half-hour commercials, the Texan revived a claim that he had been the target of five armed terrorists hired by North Vietnamese to assassinate him 20 years ago. A single guard dog ostensibly scared the gunmen off his property. Perot never reported the incident to authorities, though...
...written," says Rhodes, quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson. Fair enough, but writing explicitly about sex requires a more delicate touch. It takes only a few pages to realize he is in the grip of graphomania. Flesh must become word. His style swings from confessional to clinical, from pop psych to steamy paperback prose: "Her body fired explosively, every muscle contracting, and her back arched grand mal off the bed from the abutments of her feet and her shoulders." A passage comparing his own orgasm to a thermonuclear explosion may start a chain reaction of giggles...