Word: stalwartism
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...movie takes its time letting you watch Clint turn into Clint. And when he does, it's not thrilling but scary. At the end he threatens to "come back and kill everyone." Behind him, lightning illuminates an American flag and underlines the film's dour message: the world's stalwart policeman can easily become the world's nastiest killer...
Conductor, composer, TV stalwart, Leonard Bernstein was a prodigy whose musical accomplishments were blurred by his seismic personality. He died in 1990 at 72, but his reputation, instead of receding as the fame of so many artists does after death, is going strong. The latest tribute is Sony's massive LEONARD BERNSTEIN ROYAL EDITION, a repackaging of his Columbia recordings from the 1950s to the 1970s. It consists of some 119 CDs, to be released over the next 2 1/2 years. The first 10 concentrate on Beethoven and Bartok, and the remastered sound is excellent. But that...
...humor well under wraps. Her goals were serious. "She worked in the belief that legal change could provide for social change. In her Senate record and the cases she undertook, she was always there for the hard stuff," says John Rogers, a former Attorney General and Labour Party stalwart...
...expert likens it to not reimbursing drivers for the cost of changing oil in their cars while paying 90% of the price of a valve job. "The attitude was the faster it crumbles, the faster we'll get brand-new," says New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a stalwart highway watcher. Moreover, maintenance is unglamorous. "Nobody ever had a ribbon-cutting ceremony for fixing cracks," notes Moynihan...
Equipped with models, slides and posters, Assistant Secretary of Transportation Stan Durlacher explained the new plan, called 8.1D, to a crowd of about 60 stalwart Scheme Z opponents at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School...