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...contrarian. To a good contrarian, Amhoist's expected profits in 1984 will still be meager enough to make it an out-of-season bargain, like snow tires in July. The fact that few other investors are attracted to it is all to the good. Contrarians are a stubborn breed who relentlessly resist the natural human tendency to run with the pack, and Amhoist is just the kind of stock they thrive on. Or hope...
...teams remained tied through the first half, but Keene came out strong in the second half, using goals by Angle Nelson and Laurie St. Pierre and a stubborn defense to take the victory...
Only toward the novel's close are the layers of hate and obscenity stripped away--only when this is accomplished does Eddie begin talking with us. A stubborn, tenacious adolescent, he sees himself as a "man who has lost all but has not surrendered a fucking thing... And here, when we want, finally, to put our arms around him and hear more, he shrugs us off and retires behind a cloak of scorn, finishing. "Fuck you, cock sucking bastards! You can all go straight to hell!" But that's his problem...
...sweetness and come close to expressing the wrenching loyalties of familial love. Peter Coyote, as Rawlings' future husband, exudes steely authority from behind his gentle smile and bow tie-a humanized George Will. But Mary Steenburgen, an actress of eaglet resourcefulness, looks both too frail and too stubborn to bring Rawlings to life. One wishes Cross Creek well; one wishes even more that it were better. -By Richard Corliss
...tried to bring Hu to personalities. Peng had been too proud and stubborn, he said. Lin Biao had been too ambitious, a careerist, sucking up to Mao, then trying to kill him. Finally he came to Jiang Qing. Here Hu's anger burst. "If you were to write a biography of Mao, she would be the tragedy of his life." Then, an anecdote about Jiang Qing escorting Imelda Marcos, the First Lady of the Philippines, on a visit to Tianjin. The state cavalcade roared through the peasants, ran one down and killed him. Stop, said Imelda. No, said Jiang Qing...