Word: winstone
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...person is thinking. "Before they could kill me on Batman & Robin, I said, 'It's a bad film, and I'm the worst thing in it.' You try to defend an indefensible position, you'll look like a schmuck. The guys I dig don't do that. Look at Winston Churchill. He said, 'These are our shortcomings. Now let's get past it,'" Clooney says. He thinks that's all Cruise needs to do. "I talked to him the other day, and he's a good egg. There's nothing self-serving about what he's saying...
...Labor Party, by contrast, captured only 209 seats, while the new Social Democratic/Liberal Alliance picked up 23.* Thatcher becomes the first Conservative Prime Minister in this century to be re-elected to a second term, a feat unmatched even by such illustrious entries on the stairway wall as Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan. Beaming down from a balcony at Tory headquarters in London, Husband Denis at her side, Thatcher told her jubilant supporters, "It was a larger victory than I dared hope...
...barrel, Everyday is the bullet. The song was originally composed as the sound track for a viral video in which photographer Noah Kalina cut together pictures of himself taken in an identical pose over several years. Removed from images, the 6-min. track (available at iTunes) is a George Winston knockoff?New Age piano music perfect for contemplating autumn's arrival, though not too deeply. But with images, Everyday becomes musical tofu, taking on the flavor of whatever emotions are expressed by the visuals. Its fuliginous keystrokes, slowly building in intensity without getting intense enough to be distracting, are made...
...Winston Churchill. He would have fed and watered us more generously...
...Xenophon and Díaz warrant mention, where are the likes of Otto von Bismarck, Winston Churchill and Henry Kissinger? Where would our understanding of the rise of Germany be without Bismarck, the diplomatic and military trials of World War II without Churchill, or the Soviets, Mao and Nixon without Kissinger? Their extensive memoirs were written in part to contribute to history, but also as a personal defense against future historians. This dynamic - the statesman as historian - would have been a fascinating one for Burrow to explore...