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...process, senior quarterback Joe Moorhead, a polite, soft-spoken chap from Pittsburgh, Penn., had picked the Crimson apart, racking up nearly 250 passing yards in the second half and doing more damage to Harvard's collective ego than anyone could imagine...
...agent, some commercials, a couple of marriage proposals and a name-recognition factor in Canada of 49%, according to a local polling concern, which means that Assman is better known to his fellow Canadians than many of their own politicians, including Deputy Prime Minister Sheila Copps. Says the soft-spoken Assman: "No one's ever really noticed my name before." Unfortunately, so many aspiring wags have now caught on that the 61-year-old had to get an unlisted number in order to cut down on crank calls from people who aren't talk-show hosts. Ah, fame...
...title--come in. They live behind multilocked doors, surrounded by tons of old newspapers, in a downtown slum. Danny (Michael Richards of Seinfeld) is a wild-eyed, left-wing paranoid, certain that every knock on the door heralds the arrival of the FBI; Arthur (Maury Chaykin) is a soft-spoken collector of wedding-cake figures, snow domes and rubber balls that he teaches Steven to listen to, convinced the voices of the children who once bounced them still echo faintly inside...
Though Delay is not bashful about his agenda, the actual tactics may be more subtle, according to Don Fowler, the soft-spoken national chairman of the Democratic National Committee. "You're a lobbyist," he says. "So you call up a subcommittee chairman and ask for an appointment. They take your name and number, but the congressman's assistant tells you to call back a day later. And when you do, they tell you that you haven't been doing your part...
Hailed by New York magazine as "the next Bernstein" after his Metropolitan Opera debut last year, the soft-spoken, long-haired Nagano, 43, has so far managed to avoid the kind of premature hype that can capsize a career. Indeed, the onetime beach boy from Morro Bay, California, is still not widely known in the U.S., holding only the modest post of conductor of the Berkeley Symphony. "There's nothing wrong with wanting to be well known," says Nagano, "but that doesn't work for me. I just try to let my enthusiasm for what I'm doing guide...