Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hersh's complex personality seems suited to his work. He is in turn talkative, churning, abrupt, zealous, egotistical and abrasively honest. His impact is like a blast of air rushing in and out of the insulated corridors of Washington's secretive institutions. On a story, he goes day and night: tousle-haired, tie askew, he searches out sources high and low, working the phone, visiting homes, establishing rapport-often among junior staffers-and furiously scratching notes (he does not use a tape recorder...
...Holiday Inn, receiving visits from a dozen state delegations and some 20 Congressmen. Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, who is due to announce his candidacy this week, expertly worked the lobbies, smiling his down-home peanut-farmer grin, and Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, a millionaire, threw the biggest blast: a cocktail party attended by 4,000 people...
...impression the actors were taking the play at too fast a pace; Sheffer ordered no encores for "Here's a How-De-Do" (one of the most frequently encored numbers in the whole G & S canon) and none for "There Is Beauty in the Bellow of the Blast," the only number that got an enthusiastic audience response of sustained applause and real excitement. He seemed in an inexplicable hurry to get on with the perfunctory "For He's Gone and Married Yum-Yum," and finish the show...
...performing musician is quite as inflated as the virtuoso trumpeter. Preparing for a good high staccato blast or a long, breath-defying legato lament, the trumpeter can puff himself up so much that the air pressure inside him may exceed that of an average automobile tire (24 lbs. per sq. in.). No other wind player can make that statement. No other musician can literally become so dizzy so easily. No other has such a constant fight between muscular tension and interpretive relaxation and grace...
...Formula One's start to practice. Running through their gears, these cars wail like air-raid sirens going at full blast. They will average over 120 mph on this course with its 11 curves and two long straights. Watching these cars run their laps is like seeing five out of every 100 frames of a motion picture; a series of loud flashes with little continuity and a great deal of suspense between glimpses. I won't know the overall story of the race until I read it in the next day's paper...