Word: hills
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speaker, Cuomo is a modern master of the ancient art of rhetoric. His repertoire includes sarcasm, mimicry, hyperbole, irony, parables, analogies and allusions. He poses questions and answers them, sets up philosophical straw men and knocks them down. He begins slowly and gains momentum; he races up the hill of one sentence and coasts down another. His timing is that of a stand-up comic. His voice can be as soothing as a late-night disk jockey's or as rumbling as an Old Testament prophet's. He can, on occasion, be shrill, edging toward the sanctimonious. But always...
...string miles of red and blue ribbons and rope. Cars and trucks were to be lined up trunk to hood. At week's end an armada of catamarans and sailboards hauled to the site by their owners made a surreal sea as they floated bow to stern on a hill west of Albuquerque. Hands Tennessee Organizer Tif Bingham said the event would be a huge success, no matter how broken the chain. After all, he pointed out, "the main purpose of Hands Across America is to raise money for the poor and hungry...
...projects 30 million guests annually in five to ten years. To handle the growing popularity, spas are sprouting across the U.S. Only five years ago, there were no more than a dozen major establishments. Today there are perhaps 60, and new ones open seemingly every day. Next weekend Winthrop Hill in Watertown, Conn., registers its first clients. And doyennes are sprucing up. La Costa, near San Diego, is spending $70 million to remodel and add 240 rooms...
When Hubert Humphrey went to Washington as a Senator in 1949, Kampelman followed as his legislative counsel. He left Capitol Hill in 1955 to join the prestigious law firm currently known as Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. He also enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve. Explains Kampelman: "The development of atomic and hydrogen bombs led me to doubt my earlier faith in the power of nonviolence to overcome evil in international relations...
...lobbyist," he said. "I thought of myself as a strategist. I've never had a client ever ask me to talk to the White House or talk to the President. I've never tried to influence a decision. I've only made two or three calls to Capitol Hill. I don't know that much about it up there. I've coordinated strategy for those corporations and those countries that wanted to understand and deal with the U.S. The opportunity with Saatchi was to do that on a worldwide basis: 95% of my work would have been outside...