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Their slap-and-stroke routine extends to Oval Office meetings, where Bush is unfailingly gracious, whether with earnest junior staffers or craven special pleaders. It is Sununu's role to wring useful information out of unctuous presentations and rebut one-sided arguments, and he delights in it. Bush clearly relishes the edge and the rigor that Sununu provides. "He has made a lot of friends for our Administration," Bush says, "on the basis of competence, sheer competence...
...actors too come at their roles energetically, not condescendingly. Baldwin plays Junior with a goofy grin and the scheming intensity of a small mind spinning its wheels and getting nowhere. Ward finds Hoke's integrity down at his heels. And Leigh, a gifted chameleon who deserves stardom, can wring pathos just by reading a recipe for vinegar pie or walking up the path to a house she will never own. Handsomely made, wonderfully acted, Miami Blues is the kind of picture Hollywood ought to be making more of. If only...
...deserved." To succeed Cohen, Robinson named Howard Clark Jr., who is known to favor a no-frills corporate style, as the chief financial officer of American Express. "Times have changed," says Lawrence Eckenfelder, who follows the securities industry for Prudential-Bache. "The name of the game now is to wring out the excess, cut costs, retrench...
...vibrancy, The Quincunx occasionally seems to be too much of a good thing. In order to wring maximum suspense out of each encounter, Palliser allows his narrator some shameless stalling. "Not so fast," one character remarks, when asked a leading question, and the reader is inclined to mutter, "Faster." John's mother is particularly maddening in her refusals to answer her son's questions. A typical response: "No, I won't tell you that. Not yet. One day you'll know everything." Postulate a more forthcoming parent, and the novel would be 200 pages shorter...
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1988). It might seem hard to wring interest or suspense out of a love story that has been stalled for more than 50 years by the inconvenience of the woman's happy marriage to someone else. Garcia Marquez does so with no visible effort. The magic realism of his masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970), is muted here. The later novel's surfaces seem real; the inner lives are fantastic...