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...would grin warmly as he heaped beef or chicken onto a ready plate. Dartboard has only the best things to say about the quality of his aunt’s Thanksgiving meal, but could any holiday compare to that Wednesday in mid-October when the Carver’s basso-profundo voice intoned, “Allllll that good turkey” as he piled the poultry high...

Author: By The Editors, | Title: Dartboard | 12/5/2003 | See Source »

...real shock of Sellars' production is how well it works both theatrically and thematically. The racial casting, for instance, is a brilliant way of defusing the play's anti-Semitism -- turning it into a metaphor for prejudice and materialism in all its forms. Paul Butler plays Shylock with basso-profundo self-assurance; he's a hardhearted ghetto businessman who, even when he is humiliated at the end, never loses his cool or stoops for pity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Shylock on the Beach | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

...name, with due basso-profundo pomp, this way: Rush (as in rush to hear him while he's hot) Limbaugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conservative Provocateur Or BIG BLOWHARD? | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...case anybody still had not guessed that the South Vietnamese were coming, helicopters loaded with airborne commando teams clattered noisily into points north of Chup, and American B-52s made basso-profundo bombing runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: Keeping Them Guessing | 12/6/1971 | See Source »

...Piccadilly one day, a giant (6 ft. 4 in.) California javelin thrower named Butch Likins decided to improve on the ineffective way a pushcart peddler hawked his peaches. Butch took over. His basso-profundo split the damp London air: "Ripe, juicy, California peaches! Buy your peaches here." When the fruit was sold Butch turned the money over to the peddler, said, "Now, that's the way they sell peaches in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Golden Boys | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

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