Word: bassos
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...outlaw any poll tax whose purpose or effect is to deny the right to vote in state or local elections. If the case is won and the decision upheld by the Supreme Court, that will be it. "We are of the opinion," crooned Ev Dirksen in his best basso profundo, "that this will cut the mustard...
...while he was sayings things that didn't need to be said to Harvard, telling us about the bad and sinful people and the Godly, Loving people, you could feel how immensely stirring he could be in another setting, with a different audience. You could hear his basso "m's" fading out, and "r's" rolling over shouting policemen and barking dogs, over the sounds of men being beaten, still singing of the ultimate "overcoming," over the weeping of a huge-bosomed Negro lady in a faded print dress, with hair tied...
Died. Hamilton Basso, 59, journalist-novelist, a gentlemanly scholar from New Orleans who exiled himself to Connecticut in 1944, but kept trying to go home again with leisurely re-creations of the South's social distinctions, ancestor worship and tribal customs (from lynching to channel bass fishing), most successfully in his 1954 bestseller, The View from Pompey's Head; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn...
...Museum, barefoot Soprano Patrice Munsel, 39, sashayed out in a pair of gold lace pajamas with an emerald on her big toe. Brava! But Munsel, who admits her pj's are not for sleeping, saved the real treat for retreat: a peekaboo backline, cut clear down to her basso profundo...
...setting up one in the U.S., where the failure rate is high enough even without the resentment from foreign competitors that the American abroad often faces. Nonetheless, the appeal of setting up business overseas is undeniable. Says Peter Pach, who went to Italy to break into opera as a basso and stayed to set up an auto dealership catering to tourists in Rome: "In Italy, I have a somewhat unique position. In America, I would be just another car dealer...