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...television--and even in his early days he did topical jokes, designed to be tossed aside and replaced by others on tomorrow's hot topic. This was in contrast to his peers, whose endlessly polished routines had to endure unchanging over the long years they toured the circuit. That skill made Hope the perfect comedian for the new media of radio and TV, which chewed up material (and personalities) at a manic rate. We were properly awed by his motormouth profligacy. We knew he had a million jokes on an equal number of topics: Eleanor Roosevelt, Crosby's golf game...
DIED. JANE BARBE, 74, doyenne of telephone and voice-mail recordings, whose messages included "I'm sorry, the number you have dialed is no longer in service" and "At the tone the time will be..."; of complications from cancer; in Roswell, Ga. Valued for her calm, friendly delivery and skill at cramming her messages into precise time constraints, Barbe--who also recorded weather updates and hotel wake-up calls--was heard some 40 million times a day during the 1980s and early '90s. "Vocally," she said, "I get around...
...that. He is, in fact, an exemplar of all that is awful about latter-day California politics. He is not incompetent, but he has governed without much creativity through a succession of crises--the rolling electricity blackouts of 2001 and the subsequent high-tech economic implosion. His greatest political skill seems to be an uncanny ability to raise money. He has used this cash to buy television ads, most of them quite vicious...
...that. He is, in fact, an exemplar of all that is awful about latter-day California politics. He is not incompetent, but he has governed without much creativity through a succession of crises-the rolling electricity blackouts of 2001 and the subsequent high-tech economic implosion. His greatest political skill seems to be an uncanny ability to raise money. He has used this cash to buy television ads, most of them quite vicious...
...family and mortgage, he says, "that doesn't pay the bills." Worried about utility costs, he runs after his two children, 11 and 7, to turn off the lights. And he has considered a new career as a house painter. "It doesn't require that much skill, and I don't have to go to school for it," Maglione says. And houses, at least, can't be painted from overseas...