Word: somberly
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...them with his effortless command. The moment he set foot in the State Department last January, he was met with rapturous applause. When he paid a call in Beijing three months after a U.S. spy plane was forced to land on Hainan island, he coaxed a joke out of somber President Jiang Zemin and left the leadership beaming that he "respected" China. They returned the compliment with a long-awaited $2 billion order for Boeing 737s. When Powell met George W. Bush in 1997 at a Texas charity fund raiser, the new Governor stepped forward and saluted: "General, Texas...
...person in distress or peril. But open the story to one of sweaty nights between the sheets or to the possibility of murder by a public figure, and the initial rush of sympathy is closed off as if by a valve. Enter, then, the cable-TV experts in somber fantasizing and rampant "scenarios," and a story that caused you to gulp now makes you salivate...
...that was specific to his American place during his childhood in the '30s and '40s. The link between the individual and his historic moment may be more focused in the recent trilogy, but the interest was there from the start." Roth is a serious writer who has never been somber in print; his narrative voice is unique, and so is the way he consistently wrings slapstick comedy out of the tics and obsessions of his characters. No one else writing today has been more amusing or more enlightening...
...While she was drowning six-month-old Mary, Noah, 7, walked in. When he tried to run, Andrea allegedly dragged him back to meet his siblings' fate. When all the children were gone, she dialed 911. Next, she called Russell and told him to come home. Unnerved by her somber tone, Russell called back to ask if anyone was hurt. "'Yes...the children,'" he said she replied. "'All of them...
...change and astonishments" pervades the book. Southern's status as one of the forefathers of "New Journalism" is reinforced here with "Grooving in Chi" a first-person account of the "police riot" that occurred at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. "Dig" ends on a somewhat somber note, though, as '60s survivor Terry recalls good times he shared with old friends (including Frank O'Hara and Abbie Hoffman) in a series of eulogies and tribute articles. These pieces make one lament the fact that Southern never got around to writing his proposed memoirs. Taken together, "Grand...