Word: act
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...format (including a syndicated show in the late '60s that profoundly influenced David Letterman). He kept up the productive pace, but for smaller, older audiences - the remnants of the pop intelligentsia he had helped form. If Mensa had a nightclub for its senior members, he'd be the lounge act...
...kind of active role in what is occurring on the screen. So in something like On the Waterfront, with Marlon Brando, you know, "There's a right thing to do Malloy and a wrong thing to do!" And all this becomes a sort of moral parable. He can either act doing the right thing or act doing the wrong thing, and that's pretty much the way the world is established in that film...
...Inosine passes through cell membranes, so it doesn't act on receptors," he said. "It gets right to the heart of the matter...
...Gore has done everything he can to dodge this tactic, principally the questionable tightrope act of declaring that he is "his own man" and in the process both distancing himself from Clinton and the eight-year boom that has accompanied his presidency. This left the Bush team with one key objective. To redefine the popular image of Al Gore...
...Buddhist temple incident and the White House fund-raising phone calls, but those seemed to be viewed as technical breaches of obscure laws rather than examples of outright mendacity. His overall image was of a boringly earnest Boy Scout. His Rose Garden defense of a just-impeached Clinton, an act of understandable loyalty...