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...detailed program that causes people to believe you have a core, then when you make mistakes or have to account for past ones, they will let it slide. They'll even let you add two-and-two to five now and then. If you can't point to some heft behind you as a cushion, the voters think you're just the sum of your advisers' rhetoric and that you can't even get that right. That's why I'm often too specific. I know I have to work more to connect with an overarching vision, but I need...
...still a shimmering soprano, says, "The first word to learn is no, if you want a career." Says Pavarotti: "Go easy. One new role a year is plenty." Before his Otello, sung in a concert version with the Chicago Symphony, music fans speculated that he lacked the declamatory heft for the part. But Pavarotti not only had it; he was able to sing three out of four performances with a bad cough...
California may be the land of health and fitness, but even the well-toned gods and goddesses of the Golden State are respectful when they heft the Sunday edition of the Los Angeles Times. Swathed in plastic or tied with string, the paper contains an average of 444 ad- and information-packed pages, and most weeks weighs in at more than 4 lbs. On April 7 readers unfurled their papers to find a handsome addition: a redesigned, upscale Sunday magazine bursting with national ads and feature-length stories calculated to showcase the best of the Times's 900 editors, reporters...
...fact, capital insiders viewed Cannon that way too because of his superior coverage of Reagan. Now, in his third book on the subject, Cannon caps 25 years of Reagan watching in monumental fashion. The volume's heft and density are intimidating, but President Reagan is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the star of politics in the 1980s. On one level it is an exhaustive account of the Administration, with new material added to the familiar chronology...
JESUS JONES: LIQUIDIZER (SBK). Lots of electronic sampling here, and some fat- bottom rhythm, but this London-based band is no simple dance monster. Its social message has heft, its lyrics spirit. "Don't you know happy is never enough?" is guaranteed never to be heard on the sound track of thirtysomething...