Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many authorities fear that the maximum conceivable increase would not do much good; without some reduction in drug demand, the problem will simply remain too big. Says Carlton Turner, drug adviser to Ronald Reagan: "If this initiative of the President's becomes (only) a law-enforcement initiative, it's dead...
...that voice, "the Voice of Cape Ann," is flat and without timbre. His admirers describe it as a deadly monotone or compare it with Elmer Fudd talking with a mouthful of marbles. His patter is often punctuated by dead air and occasionally interrupted by some terse remark like "The peas are burning...
Geller, a 66-year-old bachelor, doesn't have what you might think of as a radio personality. He isn't just taciturn but a misanthrope and the dead opposite of a local booster. He calls Gloucester "the end of the world" and says he would rather have caught on in New York City. In Gloucester, he says, there is nothing to do but work or have sex. "I don't have a sex partner," he adds gloomily, "so I work...
...station or the music, it isn't clear which. His arms are folded across his chest, his shock of gray hair stands up off his scalp, his lower lip is rolled out. "So?" he asks finally. Another long pause. "Does it mean he wants me to drop dead...
Horovitz has in fact incorporated a character based on Geller into one of his plays. The character eventually dies during a broadcast, a plot twist that evidently troubles Geller. What follows is dead...