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...couples proceed to question each other about their lives, a process which reveals parallels between their relationships. The men are both typically protective and stubborn, like leaders defending their pack. Nancy and Sarah both exemplify the stereotype of the domineering wife combined with an incessant curiosity. Nancy is agitated by her husband's reluctance to "live," and Sarah rushes to Nancy's side every time she has an opportunity to learn something more about humans. She was overjoyed by the sight of Nancy's breast...
...face of it, this may be dismaying news to Americans. Primakov's stubborn, bluntly phrased opposition to U.S. policy in most parts of the world--from the Middle East to the gulf to the Balkans--has, after all, made him the bane of U.S. officials. In public, at least. In private, Primakov seems to have shown a little more flexibility. Diplomacy, he sometimes says, is a process of mutual concessions. He has been able to establish a good working relationship with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. And officials at NATO, one of Primakov's least favorite organizations, say they...
...none of the proposed solutions seems adequate, and a writer who chooses to confront the problem at all (I'll pass, thanks) may find that "he" and "his" are still the best. The problem stems from the fact that language, though evolving, remains in many ways stubborn and resistant to change. Linguists divide language's parts of speech into two classes: open and closed. Words in the open class are more flexible. Open nouns can adapt quite fluidly as culture changes, so that "Negro" shifts to "colored," then "black" and "African-American." Pronouns, however, belong to the closed class...
...only thing Clarence Thomas ever said that I agree with is that kneeling is not a position of strength, and begging is not an effective tactic. I'd much rather see blacks throwing their weight around; using every parliamentary tactic to protect their interests; being as single-minded, stubborn and selfish as, say, Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay. I just wish the effort was being made in a more worthy cause...
This put him in conflict with his coach, the almost equally legendary Bill Bowerman (Sutherland), no mean athletic aesthetician himself. He's presented as a more forgiving and gently eccentric kind of obsessive, disapproving of his pupil's stubborn individuality but also watchfully guarding a passion for excellence that matches his own. Theirs is a marvelously subtle wrangle: Prefontaine ran Bowerman's race in the 5,000 m at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and was beaten; but it was Bowerman who brought him back from self-pity (and maybe self-destruction) and onto the comeback trail before Prefontaine was killed...