Word: dowd
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...DIED. TOM DOWD, 77, music producer and engineer who masterminded classics like Respect and Layla during a 50-year career working with soul, jazz and rock artists such as Aretha Franklin and Eric Clapton; in Aventura, Florida. Considered a pioneer in eight track and studio recording, Dowd was recently honored with a National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Lifetime Award...
...segment that snowballed in notoriety when New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd devoted two columns to it, “60 Minutes”’ Lesley Stahl interviewed Harvard Business School student Ani Vartanian about how her success has hindered her social life...
...column, Dowd described a man who confessed to being too intimidated by her to ask her out, and blamed the dearth of childbearing career women on men’s insecurity. “Men veer away from ‘challenging’ women because they have an atavistic desire to be the superior force in a relationship,” she concluded...
...tiring after a while to lampoon Bush’s intelligence so Maureen Dowd twists the attack in a slightly different way. Bush is not just stupid; he’s also uncultured. When the President visited Paris last May, Dowd wrote that he accentuated his uncivilized caricature by “acting like a rodeo rider in King Louis’s court.” Other reporters covering Bush’s trips to Europe have noted, in the midst of news stories, that Bush struggles through stately European dinners because they begin at his normal bedtime. Apparently...
...Dowd may be right: polls show that as war talk drowns out everything else, Democrats are losing the slight edge they had in congressional races when they returned from the August recess. They are increasingly worried about not only their effort to win back the House but also the possibility of losing control of the Senate. And they anguish over long-term damage: some say a prolonged fight over Iraq will resurrect an image that the Democrats spent decades trying to shake after Vietnam. "If we look like a bunch of left pacifists, it hurts our numbers," a Democratic Party...