Word: tough
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...Kevin can do it all," says Casey Silver, president of worldwide production for the MCA Motion Picture Group. "He can carry a gun or a woman in his arms. He can be tough or add a sweet comedic touch." The surprise is that an actor so versatile can be so focused. Ask Phil Alden Robinson, the writer-director of Field of Dreams. "You can't force him to do something that's false," says Robinson. "He marches to his own Walkman." Or maybe to his own Victrola. For Costner is both a harbinger of the postimperial American male...
...interpret the memo as a slur on Foley. Other Republicans who understood the memo's unmistakable meaning dissociated themselves, from George Bush on down. Even Congressman Vin Weber, a close friend of Gingrich's, called the memo an "abomination," pointing out that this had nothing to do with enforcing tough ethical standards and everything to do with "character assassination." By Tuesday, Atwater was backpedaling, saying he had not approved the memo: "I feel confident that if I had seen this, it would not have gone out." Atwater apologized to Foley; Gingrich also apologized and disavowed his aide's actions. Wednesday...
Foley is not letting personal attacks on him keep the House from cleaning up its mess; his first joint act with Michel was to ask for a tough ethics-reform package. Investigating Congressmen who abuse the public trust is the proper business of the House. Mudslinging...
This year was tough for the Crimson and Forman. The senior missed the first two weeks of the season because of a sprained ankle. But she returned and led the Crimson to two big regular-season wins over Cornell and Yale...
Forman now laughs when she thinks about the program four years ago, when it was tough for the team to get a van to travel to games, and the players had to borrow volleyballs from other teams and play in poorly lit conditions...