Word: vaines
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More than a tale of attitudes and events, however, the movie is also the tale of individuals: of the elderly professorial gentlemen who finds romance, of the neurotic, domineering female who forcibly selects her partners, and of the homely, near-sighted spinster who reads gossip magazines while waiting in vain to be propositioned. What happens between events in this film is often more intriguing than the action itself...
...over the kitchen table, the scene was thoroughly familiar. The stern elder, graying hair neatly cropped and parted, lectures on the global responsibilities of a world power. The skeptical younger man, thick hair curling over ears, demands to know why American boys must be sent off to die in vain. Each loses his temper and falls to impugning the integrity of the other...
...John Glenn's, and may the best ideas win. Presidential politics is never so neat and bloodless, of course. Nor is Hart's appeal strictly intellectual. His political successes are due in some measure to his rugged good looks, about which he is a bit vain. But by and large Hart has staked his candidacy on the premise that he takes undoctrinaire policy approaches, that among the Democratic contenders he alone offers "new ideas and a new vision for this country's future...
...could be acerbic, arrogant and vain. He claimed discoveries that were not uniquely...
...memoir The Other Side of the Story, to be published by William Morrow in April, Powell does what he accuses journalists of doing: he makes no effort to be unbiased. He writes, "White House correspondents will look in vain for the scoops. What they will find are the stories that seem to me to be wrong and unfair...