Word: declaim
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...that fancy new gear failed to warn of the present slowdown or keep companies from stockpiling unsold goods. (We have no "visibility," corporate chieftains declaim.) "If the decline in sales is dramatic," says Shepherdson, "all the technology isn't going to tell you it's coming...
...Bara starred-in harem girl get-up-in a silent-film version of Cleopatra. Seventeen years later, Claudette Colbert had the title role, and Hollywood waged an all-out publicity campaign to encourage female moviegoers to adopt the "Cleopatra look." Many copied Colbert's dark bangs after hearing her declaim, following the seduction of Antony: "I've seen a god come to life. I'm no longer a queen. I'm a woman...
...that he had "left his heart" in that city by the Bay. When Richard Nixon visited Beijing in 1989, Jiang interrupted their meeting to leap to his feet and recite Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, in English and from memory. (Nixon felt compelled to get out of his chair and declaim along.) In the Philippines last year at a soiree on the presidential yacht, Jiang danced the cha-cha and sang a duet of Love Me Tender with President Fidel Ramos. When Jiang finally met President Clinton, Ramos advised, "Surprise him with the song...
...grand pageant of American politics, the election of a new President, takes place once every four years and draws to it a vast national--even global--audience of observers, analysts and commentators who declaim its significance and decry its flaws. A simultaneous event, the election of the Congress of the United States, arguably the anchor of American democracy, is often treated as a sideshow...
...This week Goodgame, now TIME's Washington bureau chief, profiles the Republican commissar of virtue. Traveling with Bennett, he reports, "is like a very good graduate seminar. When Bill finds something he likes to read, he's like Abe Lincoln, rereading the best parts until he's able to declaim them from memory. He has the same memory for anecdotes, including jokes at his own expense." A rare trait for politicians of any stripe...