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...Scout, and it really hurts to have your credibility questioned," Coffey said. "But I think the important thing is that students were able to get tickets at the reduced rate. I just want to get back to business...
...strangest crime fighter on American TV this fall wears a bright red uniform, calls his police boss "leff-tenant" and battles street thugs with the impeccable manners and irreproachable ethics of a Boy Scout. When he was assigned to a tough neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, the first thing he did was memorize the names on all the apartment mailboxes so he could address the residents personally. "It only takes a little effort to be nice," he said...
...contrast to his scandal-plagued opponent, Romney boasts a Boy Scout image, backed up by an untarnished record in business and family life. He has been a dedicated husband and father and an honest and successful business leader...
Peter Sellers pops up yet again in the War Room to unleash the comedic genius held in check by uptight Captain Mandrake and the Boy Scout president. His Dr. Strangelove is the crazed head of the American weapons program, apparently because he considers it the closest modern equivalent to his beloved Third Reich. Strangelove holds the audience in thrall as he goes further over the top with every line, straining in his wheelchair to extract himself from the death grip of his own right hand, a powerful character actor in its own right. This is the classic Sellers--black leather...
With Lake, O'Brien manages what he does best, which is to find the boy scout in the foot soldier, and the foot soldier in every reader. No one writes better about the fear and homesickness of a boy adrift amid what he cannot understand, be it combat or love. O'Brien shows us Wade as a lonely, pudgy 10- year-old, practicing magic tricks before the mirror, hoping to conjure a callous father's love out of thin air. "The mirror made his father smile all the time. The mirror made the vodka bottles vanish from their hiding place...