Word: stand-up
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...driven guy, an earthy, passionate, volatile, funny and profane guy, a talkative guy who tells it like it is, who grabs for gusto, who damns the torpedoes and plunges full speed ahead. He is a high- strung, stand-up guy, the consummate can-do guy, a guy who enjoys spending time in the company of other guys: duck hunting in Canada, drinking Scotch with Frank Sinatra at Manhattan's "21" Club, hanging around the Yankee dugout during spring training...
...Most left-handed goalies have awkward styles and I'm no different," he says. "I'm trying to become a stand-up goalie and work on playing the angles. It helps to have someone like Grant to learn from and I'm trying to incorporate his strengths to fit my game...
...business with the Chinese!" Sporting a cad's mustache and Walter Denton's whiny voice, Penn is a funny, harrowing wonder of energy. No other young actor so cunningly combines the mannerist danger of the Brando-De Niro school with the articulate assurance of a stand-up comic. Hutton is just as fine in a role that demands--and gets --caged heat, the taste of a soul gone sour, sanctity imploding into rage. He and Penn are the only compelling reasons to see a film that is oddly engrossing in spite of itself...
...oeuvre table, greeted O'Connor and guided her skillfully to a brocade couch. She had reached safe territory. Even though the pair was surrounded by some 200 other guests, no one would have dreamed of interrupting a sit-down tête-a-tête at a stand-up party. Conversations conducted in the zone beneath a hand-held cocktail glass are, after all, strictly private affairs...
...concern that the White House would try to steamroller the Senate into meekly supporting Administration policies. The 22 Republican Senators up for re-election in 1986 were worried that Reagan might force them into votes that could damage their chances. In Dole the Senators knew they had a stand-up guy. Said Danforth in his nominating speech: "He can work with the Administration-not cave in to the Administration...