Word: styles
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...successor brings a fresh dose of glamour to the usually staid book- publishing world: Evans and his wife Tina Brown, another transplanted Brit, who edits Vanity Fair magazine, are among Manhattan's most prominent and influential media couples. Evans also brings to the job an exuberant and aggressive style. At the London Sunday Times he established an investigative team that uncovered the Kim Philby spy scandal and exposed the dangers of thalidomide. After moving to the U.S. in 1984, he took over Atlantic Monthly press (his only previous book-publishing job) and later U.S. News and World Report. Since...
...issues. "There's no intimidation," says an aide. But when a decision has to be made, Powell is very much the four-star general officer. Says Senator John McCain of Arizona, a retired Navy pilot who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam: "Powell has a terrific leadership style...
...sensitive and caring ecologist, tenderly nursing the land and its creatures. When, eventually, he encounters members of a culture that is alien to him, he is open to their ways, making no effort to impose his on them. Quite the opposite; he becomes an earnest convert to their life-style. When he finds a wife, he is exemplary in his gentle attentiveness and supportiveness as she struggles to find and assert a "personhood" that was confused by events in her early history...
...director, Costner is alive to the sweep of the country and the expansive spirit of the western-movie tradition. The good guys and the bad guys have exchanged their traditional roles in his film, but their contentions are staged with style and energy. In this reversal there is, just possibly, redemption, not only of historical crimes but also of a movie genre lately fallen into decrepitude. It is possible, surprisingly, to imagine John Ford happy in the great multiplex...
Clearly, defense is the key area for Harvard, and penn's style plays right into the hands of the Crimson's strengths. The Quakers, who have rushed for 170 yards per game, will be faced with a stingy Crimson defense that has held its opponents to 103 yards per game on the ground...