Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world," says the actor, surveying a once elegant patio, now taken up by a sandbox, a miniature basketball court and well-worn tricycles. The actor published a book last year, To Be a Man: Letters to My Grandson. But even in that sentimental volume, Heston can't resist a few pot shots: "Somewhere in the busy pipeline of public funding is sure to be a demand from a disabled lesbian on welfare that the Metropolitan Opera stage her rap version of Carmen as translated into Ebonics." Got that, Jack...
Sorry, I couldn't resist, because like most people, I'm reduced to snickering adolescence when the subject of sex comes up. But Greenberg, a legendary freethinker, known for his unorthodox remarks, beguiling magic shows and his obsession with keeping office overhead down ("It's what killed the Egyptians!"), saw that Viagra could easily become one more way of separating the haves from the have-nots. His book Memos from the Chairman collects 17 years' worth of messages to his staff on ephemera such as returning every phone call, reusing envelopes and rationing cabs...
...could not resist auditioning for the New York City Opera--just to see how good...
...better looking in person than onscreen (in another movie era, he could have been a male ingenue, another Ronald Reagan). Put him in front of a camera, though, and his engine starts to hum. During a photo session, his publicist takes him aside and asks him to resist the urge to strike zany poses now that he is promoting a movie without any fart jokes...
...privilege Clinton still retains, and has apparently exercised as many as five times, is the right to resist appearing before the grand jury himself. The White House has offered a couple of excuses: The President is too busy; the President distrusts questions from Ken Starr. The real reason for his reticence, if William Ginsburg is to be believed, may be little more than embarassment. In an open letter to California Lawyer magazine , the Lewinsky attorney congratulated Starr on doing nothing more than "unmasking a sexual relationship between two consenting adults." Whether that's the independent counsel's privilege...