Word: hefting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Capitol Hill, credibility with the press, credibility with party people. More important, he should be a believer in the Reagan program and able to carry it out. I'm talking about a Washington political heavyweight." Most of that fits Baker, a patient coalition builder who acquired enough political heft during his 18 years in the Senate to have had a long-shot chance at the presidency. He was, in fact, briefly a rival of Reagan's for the 1980 nomination, and was preparing a run for the 1988 prize when he agreed to fold his campaign and serve...
...ballads like Long John Blues; sure, her charts tease five decades of popular music with the wink of parody. But her laser-precise technique is no counterfeit of feeling. It is the art of the Method singer, who approaches a song as an actor does his text: finding the heft of a melodic line, trolling for the truth in a lyric, daring to shift emotional gears without stripping them. She is a demon explorer, possessed by music...
...French have long put the ooh in la la, and the watchwords of recent years in France have been "slim" and "sleek." Now a newcomer named Beatrice Dalle is bursting the seams of Paris and bringing some heft back to pulchritude. Two years ago, the unknown 19-year-old bohemian was walking down a Paris street when a photographer asked to take her picture. She agreed and -- voila! -- Dalle soon appeared on her first magazine cover, followed last summer by an Elle magazine story using her face and cleavage to herald the return of the well-rounded figure. Her acting...
...weight alone (3 lbs. 7 1/2 oz.) would seem the right heft for a doorstop and the wrong one for a best seller. But King has become a brand name himself, and his publishers ordered a supernatural first printing of 800,000 copies -- and then demanded five additional printings, for a current total of 1,025,000 copies. When an author receives that kind of recognition, two factors are at work: his skills and the vitality of his genre. King, who regards It as a "very badly constructed book," may be a little too hard on himself. But the frightful...
...running for re-election to Congress. Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, after dropping broad hints about 1988, appears to be having second thoughts. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole has concentrated on the hectic legislative session and campaigning for colleagues who are up for re-election. Though he still lacks organizational heft, his decision to tend to Senate duties seems to have helped Dole emerge as Bush's most formidable competition. For the moment...