Word: choirboy
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...telegenic Paxon has the virtue of being articulate without coming across as arrogant. He says things like "Oh, geez" when asked a probing question, and "darned" is the closest thing to a curse he'll utter, even in private. But his choirboy exterior is wrapped around intense ambition. Like President Clinton, Paxon started dreaming about a career in politics at a young age. The son of an elected county judge and a mother active in the state G.O.P., he grew up in the rural town of Akron, N.Y., 25 miles east of Buffalo. By the time Paxon was a teenager...
...boyish-looking man of 48, he had never managed a major bill before becoming Senate Democratic leader last year. Almost incapable of eye-to-eye engagement with the television camera, he prefers to read his speeches, softly and deliberately, from behind a pair of glasses. "He looks like a choirboy," sighs veteran South Carolina Democrat Fritz Hollings, a fire breather...
...Martin's string-quartet underscoring. Anthology 2 has two archival gems: the song's first studio take, with Paul calling out chords to the sidemen, and its first public rendition, to which he brings a Liverpudlian tang ("Now it lukes as though they're here to stay") and a choirboy's urgent purity...
...long ago, America's Christian right was dismissed as a group of pasty-faced zealots, led by divisive televangelists like Jerry Falwell, who helped yank the Republican Party so far to the right that moderates were frightened away. But Reed has emerged as the movement's fresh face, the choirboy to the rescue, a born-again Christian with a fine sense of the secular mechanics of American politics. His message, emphasizing such broadly appealing themes as support for tax cuts, has helped make the Christian Coalition one of the most powerful grass-roots organizations in American politics. Its 1.6 million...
...center stage in American secular life. Henceforth, Reed told Time, "issues are going to have a moral quotient." The Christian Coalition, says Arthur Kropp of People for the American Way, "won't be content to be background music." They will want the oomph of the big band. And a choirboy will lead them. --With reporting by Laurence I. Barrett, traveling with Ralph Reed, and Richard N. Ostling/New York