Word: straightest
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...moment and a star out of his time. What other actor would think to achieve rampant movie fame by playing a Soviet spy and two baseball fanatics? For Costner, though, the improbable risk was a good career move. As Eliot Ness in The Untouchables, he played the straightest arrow in Prohibition-era Chicago and made saintliness sexy. As Tom Farrell, the cryptic intelligence officer in 1987's No Way Out, he brought devious modernity to a character right out of a '40s suspense novel. As Crash Davis, the bush-league catcher in 1988's Bull Durham, he found charm...
...Avenue. He was an honor student and captain of the football team at the patrician St. Alban's School. He met Tipper (a childhood nickname; her real name is Mary Elizabeth) at his St. Alban's graduation party. John Davis, who taught Gore church history, remembers him as the straightest arrow in the quiver, someone whose only evident vice was an excess of virtue: "Everybody would think, 'This can't be real...
...Straightest Arrow in Town: Accustomed to drawing praise from U.S. News and World Report and the Chronicle of Higher Education as the nation's top educator, President Bok received attention from a different sector in July when "M" magazine declared that Harvard's head was in. According to "M," the straight arrow is the thing to be today, and Bok flies as true as any the magazine could find...
...Straightest Arrow in Town: Accustomed to drawing praise from U.S. News and World Report and the Chronicle of Higher Education as the nation's top educator, President Bok received attention from a different sector in July when "M" magazine declared that Harvard's head was in. According to "M," the straight arrow is the thing to be today, and Bok flies as true as any the magazine could find...
Interestingly, the strongest--and certainly the most disciplined and technically well-honed--performances here are also the straightest. Remo Airaldi's Angelo is menacingly evil without giving way to histrionics, while Liza Diprima impresses as Isabella--a difficult role as the character is so painfully good while all around her are being so deliciously...