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Frankie V is a large, round and smooth man with a large, round and smooth sound. Clad in a warm-up jacket and black cords, this soft-spoken flugelhornist and trumpeter could have been mistaken for your typical garage-collection suburbanite jazz aficionado—that is, until he put mouth to valve and sang out the mournful melody of Wayne Shorter’s “Footsteps.” From then on, the lyrical and deep sound of his horn reinvented the familiar tune, revealing and reveling in an inner sadness too often missed by breezy tenor...
...recently moved back to Indonesia after 15 years. (Hambali, who is wanted by police in Indonesia and Malaysia, has disappeared). Recently questioned by police, Abubakar was released after two days and continues to teach at his religious school in the town of Solo. In an interview with Time, the soft-spoken 63-year-old vigorously denies any connection with a terrorist network. "I am not advocating the overthrow of any government," Abubakar says. "What I want to see is a government committed to Islam." He blames Mahathir, the U.S. and a worldwide Jewish conspiracy for his problems (see interview). "This...
...list of statistical league leaders, and you won't find many Bears. The closest thing this club has to stars is linebacker Brian Urlacher, 23, an NFL defensive rookie of the year last season; first-year running back Anthony Thomas, 23; and quarterback Jim Miller, 30. The soft-spoken Miller is a rookie of sorts, who got the starting job practically by default in his third year with the Bears. He has ridden the bench for so long--seven seasons with Chicago, Pittsburgh, Jacksonville and Atlanta--that his pants are pine scented. No one is mistaking these guys for Dick...
...whatever can be said about the president’s style, the natural contrast between Summers and his predecessor, the soft-spoken Neil L. Rudenstine, set up inevitable oppositions...
...less distance between the event Black Hawk Down recounts and the events that most of the other great war movies relate. You have to wonder if the movie's immediacy, its obvious analogies to Afghanistan, will frighten audiences away. This is a matter of some moment to Bruckheimer. His soft-spoken intelligence belies his fame as producer of big-scale action films (Top Gun, Armageddon). At 56, he has reached an age at which he wants to move beyond popcorn movies, and he observes that in Black Hawk Down he and Scott were trying very soberly to make an entire...