Word: struggler
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...Every life needs a defining struggle - an identity earned the hard way. Theodore Roosevelt was America's most combative and convincing struggler - warrior, hunter, rancher, naturalist: a bracing prehistory for the White House. Franklin Roosevelt's defining struggle was polio. The affliction that cost him his legs made him fit in a greater...
...knows, they add, that otherwise Syria will have to wait for a new U.S. President. Assad's aim is to enhance Syria's long-term stability by achieving a "cold peace" with Israel. His hope is to go down in history both as a peacemaker and as the Arab struggler who remained steadfast long after the Sadats, the Husseins and the Arafats did separate deals behind his back. He can portray the return of the Golan as a victory to Syrians who have known it as occupied land for most or all of their lives, since Israeli troops seized...
...traditional metier of her countrymen, the novel of action, in favor of dead-on English-village mysteries of the kind wrought by Britons a half-century ago. Her seven novels have all been named for actual pubs, most of them in the English countryside, and until Help the Poor Struggler they have involved a quirky trio: a stereotypically literary, sensitive bachelor detective from Scotland Yard, a fey, scholarly nobleman who has eccentrically given up his titles, and, usually, the nobleman's meddling, Wodehousian aunt. That arch setup proved charming in her early books but has worn a little thin...
...effort features a more pedestrian detective along with her stock characters, a deadly earnest tone and a climactic burst of violence befitting its story of long-calculated revenge. Although the setting remains British, Help the Poor Struggler is rather an American novel, with brooding and cynical overtones of Raymond Chandler ("It wasn't the pale skin of a man who'd not seen enough of the sun. It was more as if one had put a paintbrush to an emotion -- despair, desolation, whatever -- and tinged it in that sickly whitishgray"). Depth of characterization is not Grimes' strong suit...
Like last year's Absence of Malice. The Verdict casts Newman in the role of a struggler, rather than a winner. The courtroom drama that unfolds promises a dramatic still life rather than an action packed film, which director Sidney I time makes poignant by drawing parallels between the down-and-out lawyer's efforts to pull together both his case and his personal life...