An intellectual near-prude who may never have gone near a strip club before getting to Hollywood, an ambivalent party-goer, not a man of the night life, Rick is watching the events from afar, and also seeing himself there, with some embarrassment — and, all the while, he's filled with images, not ones that he's actively composing but ones that compose themselves in his mind.
The outspoken star has had a somewhat ambivalent attitude toward party politics over the years.
BACK in 1998, when he was still ambivalent about his party's entreaties that he seek the White House, Gov. George W. Bush described himself as a "cork on a raging river".
And when the current government was finally created, many were deeply ambivalent in the party when it was decided to join.
This compromise, reached after intense American lobbying to avoid a total collapse of the talks, appeared to reflect the ambivalent attitude of the parties to the conflict.
In retrospect, last year's sessions were sometimes made uneasy and inconclusive by the prospect of a general election, and by people's ambivalent feelings about the Labour party.
His new party reflects the ambivalent nationalism of many Quebeckers, best summed up by a comic who said that the ideal solution is an independent Quebec within a strong and united Canada.
Yet at first, the Social Democratic party had an ambivalent relationship with these settlers, conceiving their initiative of subsistence gardening to be bourgeois-conservative and not fitting into the grand picture of a socialist state.
Party leaders are ambivalent about the effort, with some distancing themselves from what they claim is a grassroots movement of constituents who disagreed with the senate Democrats' going over the border to Illinois to slow down Walker's legislation.
L. K. Advani, the leader of the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party, who took his seat as leader of the opposition to the chagrin of Congress members of Parliament, said he did not question Mr. Shekhar's right to hold the prime ministership, but criticized the ambivalent attitude of Mr. Gandhi's party toward the Government.
The conversation ranges across her upbringing, her ambivalent relationship with the Labour party, the state of the Middle East, and her current focus on Respect's prospects in Bradford, where their candidates are standing for 12 council seats and aiming to be post-election "power brokers" whose support will be needed to keep Labour – who are currently a minority administration – in office.
