Word: soft-spoken
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...political bigwigs were not enough to win this one for Villaraigosa. He had the Republican mayor endorse him, the Democratic governor and lieutenant governor, and the biggest county labor organization on his side. But the voters made up their own minds, and in the end, they decided that soft-spoken and efficient Jim Hahn would make a better mayor than the handsome and colorful Villaraigosa...
...Jerry is still making movies that Don would have loved, but he's interested in doing other things," says Kathy Nelson, Bruckheimer's music consultant and supervisor since 1984. Indeed, Bruckheimer, who is surprisingly soft-spoken for a man whose movies are so loud, has begun working with more established directors such as Joel Schumacher and Ridley Scott. He has even thought of directing himself. But there's one thing about Bruckheimer that won't change. "My biggest thrill is when I sit in a theater and watch people laugh and cry and cheer," he says. "You start with...
...soft-spoken New Jersey native seemed somewhat nervous when speaking, and Guinier had to keep asking him to speak...
...soft-spoken single guy who drives a pickup truck with a gun rack, Sullivan comes from a family of Greenville jewelers. A nonvet and nonjournalist, he got his start at Southern Partisan by writing about the Sons of Confederate Veterans as a member and officer. Sullivan is Christian, antiabortion and a supporter of small, decentralized government. His magazine is all those things and also a passionate defender of the Confederate flag. Sullivan says it's fair to call the publication right-wing with a Southern twist. But not racist...
...satisfy the Chinese clamor for an apology without actually apologizing, Powell became the Bush team's public face on the issue, reassuring America's jangled nerves and coaxing and cajoling the Chinese forward. And that was a role tailor-made for the administration's most charismatic figure, whose soft-spoken self-confidence kept a media-spurred "hostage" panic...