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...friends die"--Kirk kept doubting that he was ready to play in such a high-stakes arena. "You're sitting there knowing it's a dream come true," he says, "but you can't enjoy it because you're so racked with horror over the idea of playing this classic role and maybe not coming through...
...DIED. DAVID HEMMINGS, 62, British actor best remembered for playing a swinging photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 classic Blowup; while filming a movie in Romania. In the 1980s, Hemmings turned to directing TV shows before he returned to movie acting. One of his recent film roles was in the Oscar-winning Gladiator...
...When Tag Heuer first introduced the Formula 1 watch in 1986, it became an immediate Christmas classic. In fact, he's probably still wearing his old one. Replace it with this new, flashier model. About...
...remarkable memo to Republican candidates, which has seen no effective Democrat analogue, culminated in a list of good words with which to describe oneself, and negative terms for one’s opponents. The “D” section is classic: “debate, dream, duty” for positive language; “decay, destroy, destructive, devour, disgrace” for Democrats. The memo is over-the-top, but it worked. As one staffer on “The West Wing” sighed, it’s now been the case for years that...
...helps, of course, to have a whole network dedicated to propounding Republican policies, like Fox News. The existence of a channel like Fox means that terminology fine-tuned in the White House can quickly enter the political conversation as though it were objective terminology and not rhetoric. A classic example was Ari Fleischer’s April 2002 nonsensical term “homicide bombers” to describe Hamas suicide attacks. Fleischer was exhibiting that classic Bush-administration courage by scoring rhetorical points against terrorists, but the actual term is meaningless and even counterproductive. What bomber is not homicidal...