The loudest voice you hear in town is the guy in the jardin, which is the center of town, selling newspapers.
"The difference in the mentality between the average guy from town and these guys who'd come all the way from Poland was huge, " says Wessely.
Meanwhile, a chattering Greek Chorus of commentators and pundits laments that America is in decline and fearlessly predicts that the New Guy will take over the town.
One reason Jack has been so effective in this town is because he is a low-key guy who prefers to surround himself with policy experts rather than television cameras.
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He is a guy with a sense of humor in a town that often lacks one.
What about the guy who works at the factory outside of town?
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He remains safe because his is the only RBS recovery plan in town, and he's still seen to the guy who can implement it.
Talk about offhand chic: On my last trip there, I saw a distinguished guy with a quilted jacket over his suit tooling around town on a Vespa scooter.
It's a modern-day Western -- a souped-up and dumbed-down "Rio Bravo, " if you will -- with Schwarzenegger making like John Wayne as border town Sheriff Ray Owens, the last man standing between a runaway bad guy (Mexican drug baron Eduardo Noreiga) and his freedom.
Nowhere are the strictures of Prohibition more freely and profitably flouted, and all is well until a new deputy sheriff named Rakes (Guy Pearce), a strutting and murderous dandy from out of town, arrives to clean the place up.
Just as importantly, Buss identified Johnson as a guy he could build a glamorous, entertaining team around, one that fit the town and drew tons of Hollywood A-listers into courtside seats.
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