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Bentsen assured his former colleagues in Congress that "when it comes to a tough vote, he's going to be with you and won't leave you out there hanging like some Presidents have done." Ground zero is the House Ways and Means Committee, where lobbyists hover over the 38 members as they yank and pull at each spending proposal. "At Ways and Means, we're looking at the most important six months of the committee's existence," says Texas Congressman Bill Archer, the ranking Republican. "If lobbyists can organize so much turmoil over a little tax loophole, just imagine...
...Verdi, Bartoli says, "Never!" Carmen has been offered by several houses and turned down -- at least until she is in her 30s. The wise men who hover over her career, like Barenboim and Levine, hope she sticks to her resolve. The fact is that, lovely as her voice is, it is not large. But 26 is very young. It is nearly impossible to predict how a voice will develop; the supreme Wagnerian Kirsten Flagstad sang operetta in her 20s. "You must never force," Bartoli insists. "The test is after the concert: Is the voice still fresh so that you could...
Surely the Lord shall visit the pious and shall call the righteous by name. His spirit shall hover over the poor; by his strength he shall renew the faithful. He shall glorify the pious upon the throne of the eternal kingdom. He shall release the captives, restore sight to the blind, make straight those who are bent double . . . He shall heal the wounded, resurrect the dead, preach glad tidings to the poor...
...between events, some of the pieces will be corny at worst and touching at best. Tucker simply worries too much about the whose thing ("Somewhere along the line something went terribky wrong with NBC's Olympic coverage"). If she would sit and enjoy the Olympic spectacle rather than hover miserably each night over the television screen, she might actually enjoy what she sees. Iris Witherspoon
Instead, for more than two hours, the mesmerized chimps hover around us, drawing to within a few arm lengths. I am flabbergasted. Wild chimps do not react this way to humans in any other part of the African rain forest. But this is no ordinary meeting of fellow primates. For the chimps surrounding us, seeing humans amounts to an ape version of Close Encounters of the Third Kind...