Word: dourness
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...Bush. "Name me a Hispanic who doesn't like to hunt in South Texas," says Rancher Tony Salinas, who heads Hispanics for Bush. "Guns, abortion, patriotism -- these are cutting issues against Dukakis with Hispanics." But low-income Hispanics also respond to Dukakis' economic appeal. Furthermore, Dukakis speaks Spanish fluently. Dour as he seems to some other groups, he comes close to exuding charisma among Hispanics...
JEAN SIBELIUS: VIOLIN CONCERTO, KARELIA SUITE; FINLANDIA (Finlandia). Miriam Fried gives a passionate performance of the dour Finn's splendid concerto...
...gosh- golly cheerleader he is so often depicted to be. "The cold war isn't over," he warned. Bush's praise for the President's summiteering was so faint that his chief of staff, Craig Fuller, felt obliged to take Bush aside and ask if he realized that his dour comments would clash noticeably with White House jubilation. "I know," Bush replied. "That's okay...
Cardenas, 54, whose sagging jowls and doleful eyes give him the appearance of a bloodhound, is far from a leftist rabble-rouser. His speeches are often as dour as his looks. But his message -- declaring the need for a change of both government and policies -- is popular at a time when Mexico's economic problems slice deep into the purchasing power of its poor. By some estimates, real wages have fallen to the levels of the early 1970s. Particularly well received is his call for renegotiation of Mexico's $103 billion foreign debt...
...source of some hilarity over the past few years of dour golfing clones is the fact that Strange actually does have an identical twin brother, who presumably smiles all the time. At the Masters in 1985, Curtis had a near collision with history, blowing his chance by hitting a creek at 13 and a pond at 15. Nobody cried, not even Strange, though he did last week. He beat Faldo in the play-off by four strokes but really by something extra that the Englishman well understood. Recalling his own day of glory at the British Open in Scotland, Faldo...