Word: bellow
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...years has been the host of his own talk show on Chicago's WFMT. In his checked shirts, and suits that look like they are sent out to be cleaned and rumpled, Terkel is the city's most recognizable author. The dapper Saul Bellow would be a close second. Scott Turow's commuter camouflage renders him nearly invisible...
...Clinton mess last week suggested something about a certain brainless overstimulation of American media life. In his novel Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow wrote about the arrival of fame: "I experienced the high voltage of publicity. It was like picking up a dangerous wire fatal to ordinary folk. It was like the rattlesnakes handled by hillbillies in a state of religious exaltation." Bill Clinton, wholesome, ruddy Arkansas boy, found himself handling poisonous snakes. Ugly stories have a slithering life of their...
Nobel laureate Saul Bellow read from a story he wrote about a 17-year-old boy in Chicago...
Before his reading, which had audience members chuckling, Bellow joked that the audience was getting restless...
...about time for the seventh inning stretch," Bellow said. "But I am strengthened by last week's Senate hearings, where people sat longer than they will have to tonight...