Word: basses
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...former Georgetown University center. A 1979 graduate, he was once a mainstay of a winning team, and his hopes were pinned on making the pros. Today he is in uniform all right -- as a doorman at a downtown Washington hotel. A gentle Goliath with a cavernous bass voice and a ready smile, he wears a pith helmet and has a whistle dangling around his neck to summon cabs. "There's more to life than sports," he says. "It's a hard reality." That is a lesson that Scates, and thousands of other student athletes across the land, are given...
Besides, we tend in our moralism to forget how treacherous morality can be. Last year the Hanshin Tigers, a professional baseball team in Osaka, got rid of their longtime star, the American Randy Bass, because he stayed at his ailing son's bedside instead of returning to the team. For the Japanese, putting family before company was the ultimate sin; to Bass, no doubt, abandoning his son for a game would have seemed the greater treachery. Many fans these days believe that baseball players who turn their heroism to capital, selling autographs to kids (Mickey Mantle earns more from signing...
...Take 6, the hot new gospel group whose performers, all devout Seventh- day Adventists, are as much in the business of preaching as entertaining. The six men, who perform with no instruments except their heaven-sent voices, count themselves among the world's more unusual evangelists. "Our mission," says bass Alvin Chea, "is to take the word of Christ into places it doesn't ordinarily go." Founder Claude McKnight III says of the group's Christian message, "It's not a gimmick for us. It is our lives...
...optimism for mankind. Partridge suggests that "With logic and love we'll have power enough to raise consciousness up and for lifting humanity higher." This is one of the few instances on Oranges and Lemons that Colin Moulding has a chance to come through with a powerful bass line, making the song one of the album's strongest in spite of Gregory's unneeded and sometimes overdone guitar solos...
...Bass's really big payoff will come if he decides to sell the thrift. One source close to the deal says that a profitable American Savings might fetch Bass a tidy $1 billion or more. Bass could conceivably still lose money on the deal if his thrift were to suffer losses, but that is almost an impossibility because it has been cleansed of its failing assets. Since FSLIC shoulders almost all the risk, the better Bass does, the less the deal will cost the Government. "We hope he makes a lot of money," says Bank Board member Roger Martin...