Word: quiets
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...cheers for asking: What if we did a workplace comedy, and the focus of our attention and sympathy were on a fellow - played by Rogen, everyone's favorite jovial slob - who is this close to the simmering psycho Robert De Niro played in Taxi Driver? The gun love, the quiet surliness, the loner status, the head whisperings, the mistaken fashioning of other people's motives into paranoid scenarios - all echo the violent cabbie in Martin Scorsese's movie, whose script was inspired by the diary of Arthur Bremer, the would-be assassin of Governor George Wallace...
...should consider coming back to work at a hospital in Boston. Given it any thought?HAZ: I like the medicine here, but I guess the only challenge that I have is that it’s very hard to have been born in the Bronx and to stay quiet about being a Yankees...
...that all-around athlete who possesses the added dimension of poise that distinguishes the truly talented from the merely overeager. Crocker Snow Jr. ’61, coach of the Harvard men’s polo team, sums it up by calling his son a “quiet player...
There's a quiet revolution underway at the CIA and its sister agencies. A new generation of analysts, determined to drag their Cold War-era colleagues into the world of Web 2.0 information-sharing, have created Intellipedia, a classified version of Wikipedia they say is transforming the way U.S. spy agencies handle top-secret information by fostering collaboration across Washington and around the world. Rolled out in 2006 to skeptical veterans at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., Intellipedia has grown to a 900,000-page magnum opus of espionage, handling some 100,000 user accounts and 5,000 page edits...
...villains in this saga are not sorry. Almost 70 years ago, C.S. Lewis wrote that "the greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil Dickens loved to paint but ... in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices." Never before has the truth of his words been so apparent. Vicky Brago-Mitchell, LOS ANGELES...