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...individual matchup that made sense for Harvey, since Gellert was almost as quiet and workmanlike about basketball and life as he was. The one-on-one basketball culture in Chicago can be more about ego than improvement, but for Harvey, a quiet competitor like Gellert was the perfect opponent. The two would go at it relentlessly in workouts—one-on-one, mano-a-man-of-few-words—in quiet, epic battles, each trying to keep the other scoreless...
...memories of the West Wingers make for fascinating history. Ted Sorensen, Kennedy's verbal alter ego, recalls that at the crucial moment of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, J.F.K. asked him and Bobby Kennedy to go to Sorensen's office to work out a reply to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's threatening letter, a response credited with defusing the nuclear danger. Porter, who is a professor at Harvard, worked out George H.W. Bush's education goals in his cramped, second-story office with then Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas and South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell...
...film introduces Soho Eckstein, a Johannesburg businessman physically modeled after Kentridge and ideologically based on his grandfather, seemingly oblivious to the chaos that surrounds him. Soho leads his daily life in cleanly boxed rooms that contrast the violence of the outside world. He is accompanied by his alter ego, Felix Teitlebaum, a dreamy character who competes for Soho’s wife...
Quarterback. Junior Steve Hunsberger, who was sacked five times, intercepted once, hit viciously countless times and emerged from Saturday’s loss with his body and ego bruised...
...gifts and glory being a teen wolf brings Scott versus Scott’s knowledge that he actually has become the bad guy, that he’s abusing his gifts. The blonde gal is symbolic of his transfer from good-guy underdog, to a larger-than-life, ego-driven punk on par with the movie’s antagonist, Mick. The shallow Pamela’s interest in Scott is a meaningful indication that his wolfy activities have been misguided. At this point in the film, Scott has, almost without his own knowledge, become what he had earlier despised...