Word: intellect
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...Bush's policies. Given the current political climate, however, Soros could spend his money more effectively by developing a media alternative to extreme right-wing-propaganda outlets?perhaps a public-affairs forum with General Wesley Clark as host. Clark has the experience (in the military, foreign affairs, media, politics), intellect and personality to carry a major opinion show. It would be a match made in heaven for liberal-leaning citizens. Ethan Raphael Vancouver...
...before cleaning up and becoming a writer for Hill Street Blues. Addicts and gamblers, says Milch, have a "risk taker" personality--just like prospectors, which is why so few of them got rich and so many saloonkeepers did. Says director-producer Davis Guggenheim: Milch has "something most people with intellect don't have--very colorful life experiences...
...writer puts both intellect and experience to good use, especially in Deadwood's dialogue, which is vulgar but well crafted, even oddly formal. ("If you're going to murder me, I'd appreciate a quick dying. And not getting et by the pigs. In case there is resurrection of the flesh.") As with NYPD Blue's mannered police slanguage--or, for that matter, iambic pentameter--no human speaks this way. But the writing does what good dialogue should, which is firmly establish its own world and its own logic...
...brother and the uncertainty of how to live life away from the movies. Garrel also manages to convince at being unsure of how to live with conflicting feelings of love for his sister, Matthew and confusion at life. Pitt, however, never quite convinces the audience of his superior intellect and inner strength; he seems too confused to react as decisively as he does and too decisive to be as confused as he should be considering the behavior around him. Not to worry ladies, both Garrel and Pitt also offer plenty full-frontal nudity. Almost the entirety of the film?...
...named Nanu. "Here," she realized, "was my replacement slave." At moments like this we sense the sadness of the stories we will never read, the stories of those who lived as slaves and died that way. Jacobs, Tubman and Nazer are miraculous exceptions, blessed with the iron will, steely intellect and golden luck required to survive an ordeal that spared only the truly indomitable. The lives of most of their fellow sufferers will remain unwritten...