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...have not been true to my values," he told us. Probably so, but the statement was unverifiable; Woods calibrated his image as carefully as any man alive. Burned by a brash, freewheeling interview in GQ early in his career, he shrank from the spotlight even while courting it to augment his fortune. He shut out the press, cloistered his family in ritzy enclaves, abhorred distractions. This is a guy whose $20 million yacht is named Privacy. For years his interviews have been as scripted and predictable as his Sunday tournament garb, so aggressively bland that those of us who prefer...
...past two years (the group is already running $130,000 worth of commercials against Reid). "Casey ran as a pro-life Democrat, and it's time he deliver for his constituents. His father had such a legacy on the issue and you'd think he'd want to augment that." Getting something passed in the Senate has taken on extra urgency, says Douglas Johnson, legislative director of National Right to Life, because pro-life groups believe House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is considering simply passing the Senate version rather than trying to merge the two chambers' different bills into one finished...
...think the whole idea of a stoned artist is a cliché. It’s not real and especially not at Harvard,” Pierre says. “People here are very conceptual, but they don’t need drugs to augment that...
...have very little formal training. Not necessarily. I don’t think...I was lucky. My first film project was with someone that went to film school, so I figured she could cover for the both of us. And I figured I could augment my co-producer’s formal training with my common sense...
...main set of Ellie’s apartment is realistic but does not draw attention away from the characters. The sound is far less subtle. In “Last Call,” music is used exactly as it would be in a movie—to augment emotional episodes and to set the mood in moments without dialogue. This is an unusual technique, and the selection of mid-tempo alt-rock, mostly from a few years ago, is tasteful. However, the intimate nature of live theater—especially this play—renders...