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...films. As the neo-Nazi skinhead in his 1992 attention snagger Romper Stomper, he achieves his most menacing effects with a whisper and reads a passage from Mein Kampf as if it were a sacred bedtime story. The tough cop he played in the 1997 L.A. Confidential is another soft-spoken type: in lieu of shouting, he tattoos his fist on a suspect's face, grabs a man's genitals. Never does he strut or preen or pace nervously, Pacino-style. There's no spillage of energy. The Sea of Crowe has a surface calm; rancor roils a few fathoms...
...maverick vote with his timely opposition to the war. For another, Lieberman's belief that removing Saddam Hussein would start a benign chain of events in the region seems imprudent now, given the deteriorating situation on the ground in Iraq. But there's something else about Lieberman--a sweet, soft, caramel quality--that makes him an unlikely firebrand. Even when he attacks his opponents, as he has done quite effectively in debates, he does it in a grandfatherly, remorseful manner. There is no meanness...
Lack of funding and a soft housing market had stalled the complex’s creation despite its approval in March...
...momentum back in the second half and [then] another soft goal goes by, and then we are going to pay for the opportunities we don’t take our chances on,” Kerr said. “So if you don’t [finish] these chances you create, [you] lose a little bit of your confidence in yourself and it manifests into disappointment...
Unlike last year’s bright yellow beacons of moral authority, the new soft-colored posters deliver the seemingly innocuous message that “Women Deserve Better.” Being a woman, I tend to agree with that statement. Women deserve better jobs and salaries, better educational opportunities and we deserve better than the constant threat of sexual violence. Yet this doesn’t seem to be what HRL is arguing for. They must believe that women deserve better than the option of safe, legal abortions, better than reproductive freedom. In other words, women deserve better...