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Tall and ruggedly handsome, McGovern, as a campaigner, is still the low-key prairie politician who won office in South Dakota by hopping out of his car to talk to farmers in the fields. Though charming and often witty in conversation, he can be downright dull on the hustings. In deference to the youth vote, McGovern's hair has crept down over his collar and he has taken to wearing flashy mod clothes, but his failure to create any sense of drama about himself and his convictions is the despair of his staff...
Richard Brautigan sounds continually like a low-key Buddy Glass oriented to Big Sur rather than New York City. The stories in this book could be entries into a hip, West Coast Buddy's journal. They both have that funny way of describing the commonplace, and they give casual gestures the liveliness of dialogue. The two narrators share the same fanciful tone and Brautigan can go far with his fancy...
...Angeles Times, who could be considered a Washington columnist of sorts himself. But there are not many like Donovan. No pundit, he specializes in writing around the news and stresses a new, people-oriented approach in interviews with the famous, the forgotten and the obscure. His low-key offbeat efforts do not aim for headlines, but the Times is now syndicating them to 200 papers...
Died. Richard L. Evans, 65, for 41 years the nonsinging voice of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's Music and the Spoken Word, longest-running program on network radio; of encephalitis; in Salt Lake City. The show was not considered a proselytizing effort, and Evans' low-key sermonettes stuck to ethics, rather than religious doctrine. As a result, many of the show's faithful listeners did not realize that Evans was a Mormon; they considered themselves followers of "Richard Evans' church...
...halftime, Anne Low-key delivered a position paper on jumps from the Golden Gate Bridge. She came out against such action...