Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the crowds, and he responded exuberantly. His last appearance before the vote was a classic campaign scene: a crowd of 300 gathered inside the white clapboard town hall in New Boston (pop. 1,630); sirens screeched, bells clanged and lights flashed from a firehouse across the street; a brass band belted out lusty, if strangely matched, renditions of God Bless America and Ease on Down the Road. Reagan, visibly buoyed, even got off some unrehearsed one-liners. When a local politician proudly showed him the town's 90-year-old heavy polished-oak ballot box, Reagan cracked...
...duties as CBS man at the Nixon White House, but the feeling that he had arbitrarily been ruled out as ever being successor to Cronkite still rankled. His 1977 autobiography The Camera Never Blinks (written with Mickey Herskowitz) amounted to effective lobbying over the heads of the network brass and toward the public at large. The book was a bestseller in both hardback and paperback. Says Rather today: "I suddenly found myself in a very competitive race, not of my making. But if I am in this race, I intend...
...away their gold and silver bullion. In London uniformed guards admit long lines of sellers one or two at a time into the precincts of Johnson Matthey & Co., metal dealers, while tough-looking street traders sidle up to impatient standees. "Are you sellin', luv?" coos one, whipping out brass scales and rolls of pound notes. On Manhattan's West 47th Street signs blossom in jewelers' windows: "We pay the highest. Don't settle for less. Come...
...contrast, the only warmth on London Calling comes from the Clash's idiosyncratic reggae tunes, songs of Kingston refracted by Brixton into an unruly, festive rainbow. They portray the down-and-out but proud, card cheats, gangsters and two-bit revolutionaries, using brass, piano, and organ to supplement the traditional guitar-bass-drums outfit...
...Congressman from Illinois as he pursues the presidency for the first time in his life. By most standards, he should be a top contender. James Gannon, executive editor of the Des Moines Register, calls Anderson a "silver-haired orator with a golden tongue, a 17-jewel mind and a brass backbone." Respected on Capitol Hill for his courage, he was one of the first Republicans to call for the resignation of Richard Nixon. Senator Robert Dole, a long-shot rival for the G.O.P. nomination himself, says flatly: "Anderson is the brightest man running for President...