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...pair is taken into protective custody by Detective John Book (Harrison Ford, in a shy, gruff, well-controlled performance). But when Samuel identifies the killer as a policeman, and Book discovers that the man is part of a dope ring that includes other police officers, it is he who needs protection. Shot by the murderer, Book hides out on Rachel's farm, where his wound is healed by folk medicine. But his presence is resented by the Amish. They are kindly but stern people who understand that threats to their way of life can come in benign forms...
Rosen found that most of the people whom he had to deal with were, as he says, "their usual gruff selves...
...more limited. Regan once ordered two of his senior Treasury deputies to clear their press contacts through his trusted public affairs assistant, Ann McLaughlin. (McLaughlin, now Interior Department Under Secretary, is a leading candidate to become Regan's deputy at the White House.) While Regan can turn on his gruff charm and provide as lively an interview as anyone else in the Administration, he is seldom inclined to do so. In sharp contrast to Baker, whose mastery of keeping the news-hungry White House press corps satisfied is unsurpassed in Washington, Regan considers time spent responding to reporters' questions...
...story of Jake Rubin (played with starched-collar sobriety by Peter Riegert) is straight out of a grade-B musical bio. Jake goes to work as a waiter but is soon writing songs for a gruff but good-hearted music publisher (Stubby Kaye). Eventually he is the toast of Broadway, rubbing shoulders with Flo Ziegfeld and wooing a nightclub singer (Ann Jillian) whom he marries and makes a star. "When I first saw the Statue of Liberty," he tells her, "I thought it was the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen. But I hadn't seen...
Detroit has the image it does precisely because of cheap shots found in articles such as Andy Doctoroff's "Joy in Motown" (9/20). The author labels residents of the metropolitan area "gruff, gritty and wholly without class." As a member of that community, I am insulted that Doctoroff chose those words to describe a socially, culturally and economically diverse population...