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...adviser making a presentation. But instead of listening patiently, Bush interrupts, peppering the adviser with questions. Sometimes the questions seem startlingly basic. During a briefing last year by defense experts, Bush stunned the room when he asked, "What's an army for?" "At first you had the feeling, 'Uh-oh, this guy's not so bright,'" recalls a participant. What it took advisers a moment to realize was that Bush was being deliberately provocative--forcing them to step back from the immediate issues in order to explain the fundamental assumptions behind America's defense strategy...
...talk." (I'm creeped out just imagining it, and I'm the parent.) Try informal chats to establish a connection, Wolvin suggests. Even the instant messages my daughter routinely sends ("hey mom how r u, school was good, g2g") can create a rapport that could prove useful during more, uh, delicate face-to-face conversations...
FIRST-YEAR: (stammering) Uhh, well I think that, you know, well it depends on like whether, uhh... I just think that well, if you look at it from like uh, you know, um... (long pause) I should have gone to Purdue. (Buries head in hands...
...face. But he also played in a time when there was only one goaltender, and if you were injured, you needed to come back fast. He was a great competitor." So maybe Roy's record--set with the aid of masks, pads and backup goalies--needs an asterisk? "Uh...
...knew somebody was going to bring that up. [laughs] Uh, it was, you know-hard, in a way. No pun intended. [laughs] Seriously, though, people! It was just work, you know. I wasn't going into it thinking, "Okay, I gotta be a charming guy." I just kept thinking that this scene has got to be funny, and I didn't want to look like a bad actor. The hardest part of this movie was making the Leon and Julie thing work, because Leon is fake and Julie is real, and I just didn't think that people would...