Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iacocca claims that before he took Dale Carnegie courses at age 25, he was a terrible speechmaker. Nowadays in public, and often in private, he seems more a crackling stand-up monologuist than a sober corporate spokesman, a sort of Rodney Dangerfield who gets all the respect in the world, or George C. Scott's Patton turned happy and unthreatening. "I gotta tell ya," Iacocca told a wined-and-dined gathering of stock-market analysts in Detroit earlier this month, "with our $2.4 billion in profits last year, they gave me a great big bonus. Really, it's almost obscene...
...feeling they were "partners in misery." When Wallace got the flu, the general's wife gave him aspirin and apple juice. Wallace also found it unsettling as a journalist to be "on the other side of the scrutiny," with television cameras pursuing him. He is having what he calls sober second thoughts: "My appetite for the hard question is diminished. I think, I hope, I'll get it back." Several of the objectionable ambush tactics once used on CBS's 60 Minutes are no longer permitted, but Wallace knows that "some of our viewers are crying for the hard stuff...
...some Washington press watchers, the man and the magazine seemed to have little in common. Shelby Coffey III made his name at the Washington Post as editor of the paper's Style section, noted for its trenchant, sometimes biting features. U.S. News & World Report, by contrast, has been a sober, conservative weekly that prides itself on a straightforward approach to events. But to Mortimer Zuckerman, the wealthy real estate investor who bought the magazine last June for $182 million, Coffey is "an ace and a treasure-house of ideas." Last week Zuckerman named Coffey, 38, as the new editor...
...band on a wagon, relying heavily on fiddle, washboard, squeeze-box, guitar and triangle, will serenade him on the 15-mile ride. He will be accompanied by two "floats," unadorned flatbed trailers bearing 40 or so supportive drunks. Half a dozen adult men, charged with maintaining order, will remain sober. By noon the horses will be lathered, and many of the riders will be out of their minds...
...lawyer, one of the men who would stay sober and supervise, made his comments the night before Mardi Gras. He said the route had to be kept secret. "If you let everybody know where the route is, they might leave home. After all, 150 horses are fairly traumatic on a lawn...