Word: shiningly
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...criminals is simply part of what also drove him to renew ex-convicts' voter rights. Instead of ideology, "fundamental fairness was always spoken about in our home," says Crist, 50, sitting in shirtsleeves in his office, beneath a painting of his Greek immigrant grandfather when he was a shoe-shine boy. He speaks daily on the phone with his father Charles, who in the 1960s was the only white physician in Crist's hometown of St. Petersburg to volunteer to help sports teams at segregated, all-black high schools--and who advised his son during the Terri Schiavo spectacle...
...takes a good deal of wrenching about to bring this story to a happy ending, which involves the intervention of a deus ex machina, in the form of a rich, cantankerous old man (Andy Griffith, and welcome back to him) who takes a shine to Jenna. I'm not at all certain that the matches Shelly arranges for Jenna's fellow waitresses (one of them ends up with a poetry-spouting accountant, the other with the diner's surly cook-manager) are made in heaven, and I'm equally dubious about the soft landing the movie finally arrives...
...Hopkins complicates things. A series of legal technicalities make Hopkins harder to catch than anyone expects The movie follows a devious dance between Hopkins and Gosling, as both try to find the other’s personal and intellectual fracture-points. During their mind games, the two great actors shine as they share the screen. Hopkins, an old veteran, goes head to head against Gosling, Hollywood’s new “it” boy and 2007 Best-Actor Nominee for “Half Nelson,” as each tries to one up the other. Hopkins...
Playing a misfit pianist in Shine may have won him an Oscar, but look at the prize Rush won for playing a villain...
...Hillary Clinton is also banking on the grueling schedule of debates, which is "where she will shine," says a strategist. "This will be her strongest point. She knows this stuff inside out." But her team says she is not yet ready to begin challenging Obama directly on his lack of specificity. That's because going on the attack could further boost her negatives and create an opening for Edwards, who has offered far more detailed plans than she has on issues like health care. "They are worried about both Obama and Edwards," says an outside adviser. "They think if Obama...