Word: roading
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...some incentive to racking up a certain number of dollars in traffic violations, reaching into the pockets of those very libertines—modern-day Patrick-Henries, all—whose tax-averse lifestyle the Granite State so loudly pretends to endorse. Perhaps this individual only likes seeing road-trip bonheur melt into something worse. There’s really no way of knowing. The point is that the power dynamic is such in the modern day that our hypothetical driver, the classical Ubermensch, has lost all his purchase in these misguided States. Let us not forget that ours...
...just Hollywood that has changed since Heat. Its leading men have a lot more road under their feet. "Thirteen years ago they were beautiful - lean and muscular and in their middle-aged prime with great haircuts," says Jeffrey Wells, of the blog Hollywood Elsewhere. "Today they're softer, grayer, saggier, less cool. It's a hard pill to swallow, but they're just not top-dog machismo types any more." Beyond the indignities of aging that all actors inevitably face, Pacino and De Niro have both appeared in a string of bad films that damaged their personal brands. For Pacino...
...record there is outstanding." When Obama was asked to react to Palin's comment, he said, "I was surprised by several remarks around community organizing and belittling it." But he agreed that mayors have some of the toughest jobs in America, noting "that's where the rubber hits the road...
...Edinburgh, has a copy of the Declaration of Arbroath on his wall and, if pushed, will wax lachrymose about great Scottish kings like "William the Lion" and "Scotland's right to rebel against tyranny." Yet, he's far more interested in explaining how he helped secure a new road linking Arbroath to the nearby city of Dundee, which has brought young professionals to live here and given locals better prospects for commuting to a larger job market...
...never done that," he says. From a stable, loving family, sent to a school that instills a sense of entitlement in even its dullest pupils, Cameron seems never to have doubted that he was destined for great things. "He came to Oxford equipped with a much more complete road map of what he wanted to do," says Guy Spier, who also attended Sinclair's tutorials and now runs an investment firm in New York. He remembers Cameron as an outstanding student: "We were doing our best to grasp basic economic concepts. David - there was nobody else who came even close...