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...difference? The other men have reps as serious actors. Among them, Affleck is a lightweight. Hand him a big emotional scene, and he'll produce tears on cue, but they're Shirley Temple tears, the miming of a precocious child actor (which Affleck was). He's less at ease with explosive feelings than with small gestures. His specialty is the upward glance of exasperation, which works best when he's playing a work-obsessed cad in need of comeuppance and redemption...
...DIED. SHIRLEY STRICKLAND DE LA HUNTY, 78, the first woman to win consecutive Olympic titles, in 1948, '52 and '56, including three gold medals in sprinting and hurdling for Australia; in Perth. Also a mother and nuclear physicist, she chased rabbits while growing up on her family farm but took up running seriously only a couple of years before her first Olympics...
...building houses The Attic Gallery shop—“a collection of rare finds” including designer timepieces and other trinkets—on the first floor, garden decoration gift shop Gnome and Rose on the second floor and Frank Shirley Architects on the third floor...
...Dick a remarkable scholar with a tremendous influence on his students—scores of former students have rung up—but he was a marvellous father and grandfather, not just to his own grandchildren but also to mine,” said Neustadt’s wife, Shirley Williams, who is the leader of the Liberal Democrats in Britain’s House of Lords...
...DIED. SHIRLEY GLASS, 67, psychologist dubbed the "godmother" of research on infidelity; of breast cancer; in Owing Mills, Md. In magazine articles, TV interviews and a 2003 book, Not "Just Friends," Glass took a clinical approach to infidelity, treating it not as a moral issue but as a painful problem that could affect even successful marriages. Among her influential ideas: marriages could be threatened not only by sexual affairs but also by nonsexual relationships that were emotionally intimate...