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...Godfather), Lieut. Colonel Kilgore (Apocalypse Now), Bull Meechum (The Great Santini), Mac Sledge (Tender Mercies) and Gus McCrae (Lonesome Dove) summon sharp, overlapping impressions. The odor of anachronism hangs on most of these characters; they are uneasy with and suspicious of the modern world. While everyone else has gone slack and disorderly, they mulishly hew to an old or private code they dare not question. They alone remain semper...
...aurvery also showed that when advisors are not signing the study cards, it's not House tutors, Faculty or other graduate students who are picking up the slack; it's staff...
...count is the confluence of vectors--the square window with its two planes of blue sea and sky, the tabletop rushing away to the right at a shallow angle, the triangle of the arm propping the head, and the woman's left hand drooping over the upper arm, its slack spiky fingers echoed in the red-and-blue stripes of a cloth draped over the chair arm. All these angles, beautifully integrated, give the image an architecture that solidifies the passing moment, a firmness to which Hopper's diagonals pointed...
Getting Jackson's popularity turned around in the U.S. is a much knottier issue. While he remains a top star internationally--foreign sales of HIStory actually matched those from Thriller, the best-selling album of all time--his draw in America is still slack. Next year Jackson will be recording an album with Kenneth ("Baby Face") Edmonds, one of the hottest producers in the music business. Says an Alwaleed adviser: "We've got to make him hip again, and how you do that is all about perception...
...starting sweeper and that is a huge loss for us," Kelly said. "Hopefully, we'll be able to come together and pick up the slack for Lee, but he is pretty much our leader in the back so it will have an effect on our game...