Word: soft-spoken
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...jeans, sneakers and a black T shirt, Blades looks younger than his 41 years as he comes to the door of the New York City apartment he owns with his wife of three years, American actress Lisa Blades. "I'm just cleaning up a little," he explains. Courteous and soft-spoken, Blades sweeps his living-room floor while he speaks, his lightly accented speech peppered with Spanish words and American slang. When a topic stirs him, Blades can become animated and emphatic, pacing, pointing, his brown eyes bright with conviction...
Overall, Built to Last is a very soft-spoken album. The tempered pace may disappoint fans who enjoyed the quick cadences and easy accessibility of In the Dark, but the soft, melodic nature and homogeneous texture of Built to Last lends the Dead's newest project strength as well as weaknesses. The album does hold up well after repeated listening, and while none of the tracks are particularly catchy, they are interesting enough to be fresh the second and third time around...
...midst of Zouping is a village of 1,100 where Wu Baohua, 57, has been Communist Party secretary for 25 years. Wu is soft-spoken and polite, and his face expresses a sanguine dignity without a trace of self-importance. Then there are his teeth, big strong Jimmy Carter teeth. Separately, each one could win a prize. Taken together, the effect is electric. You could read fine print at the bottom of a well by his grin...
...power of team chemistry. When the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League East dropped 24 of their first 36 games this spring, it seemed the epitaph for a talented but erratic team. Renewal began with a new manager (soft-spoken Cito Gaston) whose unflappable style helped inspire the midseason revival of brooding power hitter George Bell. The August acquisition of spark-plug centerfielder Mookie Wilson added on-the-field leadership. As Gaston, one of the two black managers in baseball, puts it, "If I wasn't sitting in the dugout, I'd buy a ticket to see Mookie play...
...when soft-spoken Dinkins made the appeal for a unified New York a cornerstone of his campaign, the election fell right into his hands. Dinkins did not represent the radical and highly vocal minority of New Yorkers who wanted to avenge the Bensonhurst murder...