Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Babbitt can sound impassioned about creating jobs, his room temperature is cooler than most. Detractors call him aloof and ungrateful for political help, and even many allies describe him with more admiration than affection. Says Alfredo Gutierrez, former Democratic leader in the Arizona senate, "I consider Bruce a friend, but he has never been a warm, inclusive person, and that offends some people in politics...
...underscore his high-minded intentions, he calls his book a fable. This is somewhat misleading, since there are no animals that talk like people but plenty of human characters who sound feral. A Mafia bill collector: "You either got $220 for me or I take your f------ ear home with me." An unwed teenage mother: "I waited to have a baby until I was 15. That's a long time. From eleven to 15 waitin' to have a baby." A slumlord: "The original reason I went to Dobermans was that I fell in love with their teeth. I thought they...
That, however, does not keep him from rhapsodizing about an instrument he describes as an overgrown version of the xylophone, nor from doggedly pursuing his lonely calling. The New Jersey-born Stevens, 34, was first enchanted as a teenager by the distinctive sound of the marimba, the glowing, burnished, unpercussive tone that wafts from the four-plus-octave wooden instrument when it is struck with mallets. "I had never heard such a full and beautiful tone," recalls Stevens, who had been a high school rock drummer. "I could do all the rhythm things, and I also had melody...
...first choice of likely G.O.P. voters. After bidding Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev farewell at the airport, Bush seemed to bask in the summit's afterglow. But by Friday, the front runner had stumbled over two minor mishaps and allowed his staff to make him sound like a beleaguered underdog...
...Gorbachev did bring up one prickly problem that won instant sympathy from Reagan -- his treatment by the media. Now that Gorbachev is an active member of the global village, with its probing cameras and satellite network, he voices complaints that sound as though they could come from the White House. "Oh, he did talk some about the media and the difficulties he was having with them," said Reagan. "I just told him what Lyndon Johnson once said. L.B.J. claimed that if one morning he walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read...