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...other way around), he probably wouldn't believe the polls or, if he did, wouldn't put much faith in them anyway. He knows less about living than about coming back from the dead. As the sky falls and his allies fret and his party balks and the polls sink, he alone remains calm. He takes pride in the very habits that people around him are desperate to change. And he's not afraid of the dark, because he has been here before...
...media's downplaying of Whitewater--which, in his not disinterested view, was worse than Watergate. "Clinton and Hillary are guilty of obstruction of justice, maybe more. Period...Watergate was wrong; Whitewater is wrong. I paid the price; Clinton should pay the price. Our people...mustn't let it sink." This, to him, was one last chance for the public to come around to his view that any President can get ensnared in transgressions...
...slowly starting to sink in that I have an Olympic silver medal," Burns said. "We tried to think only of racing that race and beating our opponents instead of thinking about where we were so much that only now is it starting to sink...
...boats. "The water was on fire from the fuel," he says. Soon he and his friends had "pulled three bodies out of the water; two of them were still strapped to their seats. We had to get them out of there quick because we didn't want them to sink." Of the 18 people Randy saw pulled out of the water, about half had had their clothes blown off. One was a pretty girl in her early 20s. "I tried not to get a good look at them, at their faces," he says hesitantly. "I didn't have time...
...Carlyle as the vicious, obnoxious Begbie, whose friends tolerate him out with grudging and fearful respect. You indeed feel real fear that you might be tapping the seat in front of you too much and Begbie's there, ready to reel off a stream of incoherent expletives and then sink a broken beer bottle into your neck. Tearing up a hotel room, living uninvited at Renton's, fighting dirty in brawls--he perfectly embodies the worst of every violent, drunken rage...