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...scene, seemingly out of nowhere --the soap Santa Barbara, the sitcom Growing Pains (as a homeless kid), bits in Critters 3 and Poison Ivy--as Toby in This Boy's Life. He is at the center of this movie about a boy who bad-lucks into a stint with an abusive stepfather. And he holds the center; he can commandeer the screen doing nothing, with an eloquent slouch and a gaze that says, beneath the winsomeness, I can take...
...destination, and everyone walks briskly through the rain, hurdling the huge puddles on the way to the military science building across the campus. After collecting the test papers, the gregarious lecturer, fresh off the submarine, chats about water feed supply pumping while reminiscing about his latest eight-month stint under water. During announcements, he reminds the class about their upcoming 6 a.m. lab. Groans fill the room, which is wallpapered in maps of international hot spots, like China, Southeast Asia and the Middle East...
During the 1950s, he took time off from the candy business to serve in the military and attend Boston College. He did a two-year stint in the Navy band after the Korean...
Reinert is--or more accurately was--the typical American small-town, small-business success story. He grew up in LaPorte, Ind., and attended Western Kentucky University before enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1975. He and his wife, whom he met during his Army stint in Germany, started their wholesale bath-supplies business in 1994 out of the family garage in Summerville, S.C., a pine tree-studded bedroom community of Charleston. "We began very meagerly," says Reinert. "We didn't have one account." By knocking on doors, attending an endless parade of trade shows and selecting the right representatives, they...
...made her just a tad neater and friendlier than the real me, I knew we were soul mates. I spent hours fretting over the floor plan for her house, picking the blue tile for the bathroom and ecru wallpaper for the kitchen. After a high-paid but short-lived stint as a lobbyist--a job I found in the simulated morning paper one day--I could even afford to spoil myself with a swimming pool in the backyard, an oil painting on the living-room wall and a computer in the study...