Word: swearing
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Close your eyes and you'd swear you were listening to Montgomery Clift. Open them, however, and all you have is Ben Chaplin, the young British actor, who may be able to match the indolent flatness of Clift's voice, but lacks the sinuous ambiguity Clift brought to the role of fortune-hunting Morris Townsend in the 1949 movie The Heiress...
...middle-age guys sobbing and hugging and professing love for one another. They admit to having broken promises, they beg forgiveness--for insensitivity, for infidelity, for abandoning their children, for racial hatred, for sins as petty as reading pornography to transgressions as heinous as abusing their wives--and they swear to be Promise Keepers--with the help of the Big Guy. As one of their hymns goes, "Oh victory in Jesus, my Savior forever...
Critics say it's all hype, while true believers swear it offers significant help. Born of Eastern practice and Yankee ingenuity, it has elicited both raves and boos. The final verdict on its effectiveness, however, is still pending...
Gray insists that the growth of his empire is merely a response to the outpouring of interest in his work--hey, if people want a book for singles, he'll oblige. But though his intentions may be honorable and though any number of people swear by his methods, his sketchy credentials and entrepreneurial energies have some mental-health professionals more than a little concerned. "Couples relationships are incredibly complex," says Anna Beth Benningfield, president-elect of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. "To tell a couple to go read this book and do this one thing...
...bureaucrats lived and ate better than everyone else. We had to swear loyalty oaths to the state, call Lenin 'Grandpa Lenin,'" he says. "One year all the history exams were canceled because Gorbachev had just come to power and nobody knew what the official version was anymore...