Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this may sound too comically exaggerated to be true, and it is. James gave readers fair warning in 1980 when he titled the first volume of this continuing autobiography Unreliable Memoirs. He cheerfully admits to rearranging details and changing names (an American writer becomes Alexander Lobrau, a construction company is called Piranesi Brothers). And no character sketch is more heightened in its absurdity than his portrait of his younger self, about whom everything apparently was hopeless: his head for alcohol, his "Medusa touch" in everyday affairs, even his clothes. One of the best running jokes concerns a Singapore-made suit...
...equally adept at prying open a wild croc or a can of Foster's. But ask Paul Hogan how he feels about the success of his first film, "Crocodile" Dundee, and he's likely to sound like the laid-back grandpa he is rather than the hottest actor to come up from Down Under since Mel Gibson got his driver's license. "We're doing real well," deadpans the self-described former pub lout. "And I'm feelin' real well." Bet you are, mate. The story of a crocodile poacher who trades the dangers of the Australian Outback...
...some particularly close contests, the President may have turned off voters by attacking Democratic candidates by name. "The Republicans overdid it with Reagan," says Orleans Parish Assessor Ken Carter, who backed Democrat Breaux. "He began to sound like just another politician." In Missouri, former Republican Governor Christopher ("Kit") Bond withdrew an ad in which Reagan warmly endorsed him. Bond feared that it would inspire anti-Reagan votes for his opponent...
Editors should be wary of allowing their newspapers to serve as the major vehicle for disseminating a demagogue's hate-filled fantasies and threats. In its coverage of Kahane, The Crimson may have played into this man's hands without sound journalistic reasons...
...Yalta. He died at age 44, drinking champagne with Olga at his bedside. The death scene is cordon bleu Chekhov. A large black moth flutters into the room, and as the body of the famous man cools, the cork pops out of the wine bottle. It is the loudest sound in this beautifully modulated book...