Word: semitough
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Levy conducted a series of interviews with his profane and grandiloquent subject (favorite quote: John F. Kennedy was "one of the great [extremely vulgar synonym for ladies' man] of all time. Except for me") until the famously volatile comedian blew up at a semitough question about The Day the Clown Cried, his unfinished 1972 film drama about the Holocaust. (Disclosure: Levy's chapter on the making of The Day the Clown Cried relies heavily--and with due credit--on a magazine article I wrote on the subject for Spy.) Levy certainly doesn't shy away from psychobiography: Lewis' demanding though...
President Clinton's nominee for Deputy Secretary of State, Strobe Talbott, underwent semitough questioning by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about several articles critical of Israel that he wrote during his 22-year career at Time magazine. Explaining that he had changed his views on "many" subjects, Talbott said, "I have always believed that a strong Israel is in America's interest...