Word: louisianian
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...scorn. "How easy it is for a windbag celebrity, who pays no price for being wrong, to throw his fame around and make grand pronouncements," criticized a reader from Georgia. "The court jester may attend important meetings," wrote a Floridian, "but he is still just a clown." Suggested a Louisianian: "If Bono wants to help the poor, he should start by selling his expensive sunglasses and wristwatch. Mother Teresa he's not." And a Minnesotan was downright caustic: "Can Bono save the world? Sure, when Cher cures cancer and Britney Spears has a plan for peace in the Middle East...
...take a whiff of tomorrow's TV. You're unwinding with, say, a lively cooking show hosted by a hyperactive Louisianian. As you chat online with other home cooks and download a recipe (with click-to-buy ingredients list, compiled in consultation with your e-frigerator), your TV points out that your host's handsome, copper saute pan is 25% off at Williams-Sonoma. Meanwhile, as the dish comes to a tantalizing simmer--at about 6:45 p.m., just when your family of four usually gets serious about ordering takeout--the TV suggests clicking to order etouffee (and nonspicy chicken...
They were produced by Washington-based Media Maven Ray Strother, a transplanted Louisianian whose previous clients include Democratic Senators Russell Long and Lloyd Bentsen. "I normally do traditional spots, but they would have looked too much like doing," what he the said "Our spots candidates had were to work harder." Each was tailored to a specific audience and strategically aired in time slots close to news, public affairs shows or popular prime-time series. All seven had a rat-a-tat rhythm that sent out an unmistakable message: Hart is a man on the move. "The spots are real, real...
Percy is aware that this forbidding subject requires a light touch. In fact, most readers know the author as the genteel Louisianian who wrote such mournfully charming novels as The Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman and Love in the Ruins. But there is also Percy the Dixie Kierkegaard who wrote The Message in the Bottle. That 1975 collection of essays attempted to relieve the ache of self-estrangement by arguing that humankind was the glory of the universe because it was the only known species that used language (as distinguished from the intelligent communication of chimps and dolphins...
...firm's exploration and production division, earning his reputation for expertise in the search for oil and gas. But now, at the top, he spends some 60% of his time on public affairs, explaining energy matters to elected officials, Government regulators and skeptical consumers. The tall, slow-talking Louisianian recently discussed the global quest for new energy sources with TIME Correspondent Robert C. Wurmstedt. Excerpts from the conversation...