Word: wised
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jack is a figure that rockets off the page. In the film Stanton is less grand and less sexy, and Travolta plays it subdued, a tad mopish. His smile looks startled, as if he had just sniffed ammonia. He has the hardest job: while everyone else gets to crack wise, he has to make political platitudes sound like poetry and Stanton's skunkish behavior smell almost sweet. His Stanton is a large man unsure whether he's big enough for a job he would kill...
...found Gomorrah. But the President, whether real or fictional, used to get gentler handling. In 1942's Yankee Doodle Dandy, when George M. Cohan, played by James Cagney, meets Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President was played by an actor, seen largely from behind, who sounded so mature and wise that he might as well have been Moses. Two decades later, in Sunrise at Campobello, there is Roosevelt again, this time played by Ralph Bellamy as the last word in ripening decencies. Nobody in those days thought of making a movie about F.D.R. and his sometime mistress Lucy Mercer Rutherford...
Leave it to the Coen brothers to make a movie about a wise-cracking, pot-smoking, unemployed bowling enthusiast who goes to the grocery store in his bathrobe to write a check for 69 cents...
...only went up there with a handful of guys, and you can't expect much team-wise when you bring a handful of guys," Ciollo said. "It just turns into an individual track meet when everyone is just concentrating on his own race. You had to be really individually motivated running apart from your team...
...point in relations between Clinton and the media, McCurry made it clear that he did not want scandal to be part of his portfolio. Through Whitewater and Donorgate, McCurry was able to shovel those questions to the counsel's office. But even while savvy, media-wise lawyers such as Mark Fabiani and his replacement Lanny Davis took the calls from investigative reporters, McCurry had to wage a vigorous internal campaign for openness. "What Mike McCurry has stood for is that if you give reporters all the facts up front, even before they ask for them, you stand a better chance...