Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Howard Stern of WNBC says, "Some people find me disgusting, while others love me. But they all listen." Wrong! I turn the radio off rather than listen to Stern and his colleagues...
Mondale's aides regard Ferraro, despite her liberalism and Queens accent, as a woman for all regions who can appeal to every type of voter. Blue-collar, urban ethnic voters, especially Roman Catholics, will listen to her, they think, because she is one of them: the Catholic daughter of an Italian immigrant who represents a conservative blue-collar district. Well-educated suburbanites may be attracted to her as a symbol of new ideas and new departures in politics, even though her voting record in the House followed a rather traditional liberal Democratic line. Democrats hope she will win voters...
...recent days Thatcher's lieutenants have been forced to come to her defense and counter charges that she lacks savvy political advisers and will not tolerate any view different from her own. "She does listen," insisted House of Commons Leader John Biffen. The Prime Minister leaves no doubt that she sees governing as a constant battle. "It is not the beginning of the fight that matters," she contends. "It is fighting until it is well and truly finished...
...building with huge glass columns, he cracked: "Aha, that's where you are going to put your MX missiles." He jokes about being the man from the "evil empire." Dobrynin is, by one White House aide's account, the only Ambassador who "can talk, eat, laugh and listen at the same time...
...also glimpse the wily casuist who accepts the flimsiest excuse for invading France and courts his future wife knowing he has already won her as a spoil of war. Perhaps following Olivier's lead, Kline plays Henry as a hero and allows the attentive spectator to listen for the rogue, not between Shakespeare's lines, but in them...