The friendship between the two began decades earlier when they were doubles partners at a Houston tennis club and was maintained through all of their political travails and afterwards, a rarity in modern Washington politics.
He had never given an interview in his capacity as BP chairman since his appointment 10 years ago, he said, and was naturally determined not to talk about the beleaguered oil group amid this week's travails and after a year in which it had struggled to deal with America's worst corporate accident in a decade, allegations of trading irregularities and oil spills in Alaska.
Indeed, so mainstream has the idea of an integrated force become in Israel that a 2002 film, Yossi & Jagger, depicting the travails and triumphs of a closet gay commander in love with a soldier in his unit, was not only a big hit with the public, it also received official military screenings.
The original "Pitch Perfect," about the travails and triumphs of an all-woman college a-cappella team called the Barden Bellas, struck me as a failure of style arising from an absence of directorial imagination.
Beating Australia for the first time since 2008 would be a start, especially given the Wallabies' recent travails, and there is a quiet confidence despite losing Sam Warburton permanently and Taulupe Faletau for the series.
Franzen used her travails, and those of a predictably sprawling cast of supporting characters, to muster a biting critique of consumerism, digital culture, and human solipsism.
Called "Greenlight," the new HBO show will follow the travails and triumphs of a first-time filmmaker who is to be chosen from among the thousands of everyday people HBO expects to respond to its open call for screenplays, which will be submitted over the Internet.
Like a John Hughes flick from another dimension, Spork followed the travails and triumphs of an intersex girl nicknamed Spork and her dancing neighbor Tootsie Roll.
Bruce's legal travails — bankruptcy and a pending jail term (which only his death, in 1966, spared him) — may have ruined him practically, but they nourished his art, transforming him from a comic monologuist to an obsessed, outcast philosopher of law.
