Word: sweeter
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...smooth face a juxtaposition of an aristocrat’s brow-line and a puppy’s jaw-line. With his droopy sleeves, his toussled hair, his little fits of bangs-blowing anxiety, Cusack projects a vulnerability that is effortlessly winning, a kind of real-guy-but-sweeter charm that both your grandma and your little sister could love. All of these qualities effectively serve to make Cusack the Most Likeable, or if you prefer, the Least Controversial Leading Male Actor working today. (Unless, of course, you count Tom Hanks, although for my money, with each stubble-sporting...
...beautiful. "This Magic Moment," for example, begins with violins doing giddy, hurricane-force arpeggios. The chorus is musically and lyrically ordinary, but that?s just to lull you before the surprise of a great bridge. An acoustic guitar goes Latino in a minor key, and King sings gently: "Sweeter than wine/ Softer than the summer night..." Then the melody returns to its dominant chord, backing singers join in for an open-throated "Aaaah" and King declares: "Everything I want I have/ Whenever I hold you tight." Four lines that express gentle love, consuming love...
...independent panel to unravel the media mess. The more likely scenario, skeptics say, is years of wrangling in court over the fines, or a backroom deal that will get the media off the tax hook?and, perhaps, encourage them to write sentiments a little bit sweeter...
...finally bored myself to sleep" b) "I won't faint again" c) "I saw Che. He said the pork in heaven is sweeter" d) "I'm so sorry, I thought I saw Jenna Elfman in the audience...
...When they succeed - and TIME has found six men and women who are succeeding, in ways large and small - their victories are all the sweeter. "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause," said Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel. "The mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." These crusaders have chosen the long, humble road...