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Shaking Felix's hand is like putting on a tight leather glove. His fingers are short, thick, powerful, with the nails trimmed close. Fingertips are black with polish, calloused, and scuffed like rough-cut pine. The skin is cracked splintered, not just on the tips but down the finger to the palm, He is strong, but not with the manicured muscles of the beauty parlor weight room. His barrer-shaped forearms have been built by forty years of intense, detailed work, banding thick leather to his bidding...
...truth of Fielding's novel lie within the actions of these rough-edged characters and the primitive land on which they live. Richardson knew this and knew the importance of resisting the temptation to fill the movie with a dramatic, booming, 32-piece soundtrack and wide, overlong images of the sun setting over the fields and horses of rural England. Instead, he stayed small, as did Fielding more than two centuries earlier...
Clinton survived the rough-and-tumble world ofNew York politics, partly by challenging the fieryBrown to a series of seven debates in the finalweek...
Stalin -- rough, conspiratorial, despising authority -- was a natural Marxist revolutionary. While studying at a Russian Orthodox seminary in his native Georgia, he became a convert to Marx and never changed course. His career contrasted with Hitler's because his movement already had a leader, Lenin. Unlike Hitler's public portrayal of himself as a man of destiny, Stalin's style was stealthy, behind the scenes...
...real rough getting a film distributed. We've been lucky. When you're an independent you have no power and you're at the mercy of everyone...