He grows to like these men, despite their fondness for threatening to shoot children, even as they cause him almost as much trouble as their protective presence otherwise curtails.
Pulled into helping out, the hapless Christian meets Satine (Ms. Kidman), the dancer who causes him, as they used to say in such pictures, much joy and much pain.
One of four children born to a pair of dancers, he grew up hating the performing arts, owing to the hardships that his parents' touring caused him as a child.
Yet of all Union generals he was the most viscerally opposed to the rebellion, causing him, as the war went on, to become the Confederacy's sympathetic, vengeful enemy.
Moreover, posed Lincoln with rhetorical flare, "Must I shoot a simpleminded soldier boy who deserts" and "not touch a hair of a wilely agitator who induces him to desert?" Within his own party, Lincoln confronted factional divisions and personal rivalries that caused him as much trouble as did the activities of the Democrats.
Mr. Winter said he did not decide in his own mind that the characters had committed incest until late in the first season of "Boardwalk Empire," and he depicted it in the second season to show "how manipulative Gillian is behind the scenes and how much she was really the one pulling the strings in Jimmy's life, how much damage she caused him as time went on".
His volubility can also cause him problems, as it did last month, when one of Mr. Abraham's frequent jokes fell flat at a fund-raiser when he talked about Kevin Powell, who is running for Congress.
Raines, a long shot to make the Yankees, will undergo surgery for an infection in his gums Monday, and the medication may cause him to sit out as many as five or six games.
For Hansen, his fears about his hand tremor caused him just as much suffering as the tremor itself.
