Word: suddenly
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...screen lately, in Heat and City Hall, Pacino has grown more manic and mannerist. The finger snapping, the zany intensity of his stare and the sudden, ferocious barks are weirdly suggestive of the older, crabby, haunted Jerry Lewis. As Pacino soars into camp, one wonders: Is he a failed great actor or a great bad one? But onstage, he relaxes a bit. He knows the spectators are creating their own close-ups, so he plays piano: softer and with nuance. He gets to the tiredness of Erie and to the semisweet-chocolate heart of this frail playlet, and transforms...
...this week, and more concise. (Dole's daughter Robin told the crowd he's pleasant. He was a dandy dad, though none too present.) And Dole himself, with admirable pith, Said bigots could just leave the hall forthwith. This showed the Houston spirit was no more: There was no sudden scramble for the door...
...less sincere he sounded delivering it. It was hard to believe his denunciations of affirmative action when he had supported civil rights since the '60s. It didn't help his credibility to attack Hollywood moguls for making movies that he hadn't taken the time to go see. His sudden embrace of $548 billion in tax cuts last week sounded craven coming from someone who had fought against deficits and snarled at supply-side theory for more than a decade. Ohio Governor George Voinovich once declared that "I'm staying with him because I believe that he doesn't believe...
...action. But hearing his son talk that way, says Leyden, 30, "hit me like a ton of bricks. I knew I was taking him down a path where he'd end up in jail or dead, remembered for something horrible like the Oklahoma bombing. All of a sudden I didn't want him to be like...
What accounts for the U.S. women's sudden success? At least in part it's the result of social changes that no longer make it necessary for little girls to cut their hair to play ball. "In the 20 years since I competed, a great deal has changed," says Anita DeFrantz, a member of the bronze medal-winning U.S. rowing team in 1976 and now one of two American members of the International Olympic Committee. "The way society views women has changed for the better. Funding for sports has changed for the better. And the potential for women to survive...