Word: clarions
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Hotels for miles are swarming with Henry County denizens. The band is in my hotel—their chaperone estimates that the trip has cost $12,000 —and just down the highway, at the Clarion, are proud neighbors and white-haired Miss Virginia hostesses kicking back Coors Lites...
...preoccupation with protuberances: the meditation comparing English bosoms to Italian abbondanzas, the tribute to "Anita Ekberg's gravity-defying / conically capacious dairying facilities." But he is as generous to other, minor bards as he is to himself, including long excerpts of movie critiques from the likes of the Kankakee Clarion, the Chico News and Review...
...leaders to trade the church's culture of secrecy for openness and accountability. The first obligation, says Bishop Wilton Gregory, head of the Conference of Catholic Bishops, is "to make such matters known." The second is to set transparent rules that hold the church responsible for its mistakes. That clarion call comes from conservative columnists like William J. Bennett, who advises, "Candor and full disclosure are a must if the reputation of the church is to be protected." And it comes from sex-abuse experts like Richard Sipe, who says, "The church is not going to get out of this...
...Hollywood." Another song introduced by Waters in the Broadway show "As Thousands Cheer." The original lyric - "She started a heat wave/ By letting her seat wave" - was bowdlerized to "...By letting her feet wave" in this Merman version (from the 1938 film "Alexander's Ragtime Band"), but the clarion voice makes the song, if not the seat, swing. Merman makes it about star quality, not sex. For true cupidity, listen to Monroe's take, in "There's No Business Like Show Business"; it restores the seat, and the heat...
...exactly a clarion call to compromise - not when 76 percent say the economy will be fine in a year, and more economists than that agree with them. Sure, Wall Street could always use some extra stimulus, and stocks rallied on Bush's we-have-a-deal and sold off on Daschle's not-yet-you-don't. But between Tuesday's good news about the housing market and Wednesday's continued comeback of the index of Leading Economic Indicators, the backdrop of this week's climactic wrangle is less and less one of urgency. (Although Friday morning's University...