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...basso profundo bluster, Ventura waged a campaign well within the mainstream of Minnesota political thinking. Outsiders view the state as a bastion of liberalism--witness Eugene McCarthy, Vice Presidents Humphrey and Mondale--but insiders disagree. Carleton College's Schier says Minnesota "is actually a quirky populist state. It gave 24% of its vote during the 1992 presidential election to Ross Perot." Ventura's fiscal conservatism--no tax increases, the return of all future state budget surpluses to taxpayers--struck a responsive chord. So did his moderate-to-libertarian views on keeping government from meddling unduly in private lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body Slam — Jesse Ventura | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

...elegant and worldly. Rothko, then 54, was intense, anguished and obsessed with producing images for an era in which, as he saw it, God was an exhausted convention but the need for transcendence was not. Did he really believe that his pulsing canvases could insinuate their note of basso profundo between the oyster starter and the souffl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mark Rothko: Art of Darkness | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...Sydney and it's fabulous," reports Calnin, now with De Waart at the Hong Kong Philharmonic. "So you get a more complete string picture in which the top voice is still perfectly clear, enriched by what's underneath. It's a brilliant idea." A blast of basso profundo - that's the only extra weight the maestro wants to carry in Sydney. Now to turn dream into thrilling reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sound And Emotion | 2/23/2004 | See Source »

...grin warmly as he heaped beef or chicken onto a ready plate. Dartboard has only the best things to say about the quality of his aunt’s Thanksgiving meal, but could any holiday compare to that Wednesday in mid-October when the Carver’s basso-profundo voice intoned, “Allllll that good turkey” as he piled the poultry high...

Author: By The Editors, | Title: Dartboard | 12/5/2003 | See Source »

...fire chunks into the sky, as if in a malefic Disney World spectacle, and has them land on prime Beverly Hills real estate. It not only exhales scalding air, it also sucks it back in. This monster, writhing undead in its coffin, has a personality. It even growls, basso profundo; imagine Barry White slowly murmuring "Booo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: IT LAVAS L.A. | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

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