Word: sisterish
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...amateurs and professionals in the leading roles. Perhaps the simplest thing to say about them is that they all meet somewhere in the middle, at an agreeable semipro level. Hemingway has retained the sweet artlessness of her Manhattan days, while Donnelly, a sometime Olympic hurdler, makes something pleasantly older-sisterish of her role. Kenny Moore, the SPORTS ILLUSTRATED writer (and former Olympic marathon competitor), has a goofy grace as the man who sets Hemingway on the straight path, while Scott Glenn, the memorable heavy of Urban Cowboy, manages to make toughness funny as the women's hard-driving coach...
...Sisterish Story. During the writing, he consulted often and intimately with Bobby Kennedy and Jackie. He is close to both, and if Bobby ever launches another Frontier, Schlesinger will undoubtedly be part of it. Jackie found him congenial from the first, because of his interest in and contacts with the intellectual and cultural community. Together and singly, they filled in gaps in his information, read his proofs, corrected errors, suggested changes. Almost undoubtedly it was Jackie who told Schlesinger about how her husband "put his head into his hands and almost sobbed," then took her in his arms after...
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