Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel honored that I am able to speak with my tie and my button-up shirt," he told the Faculty...
Several audience members said they attended because they were interested in hearing Malcolm speak...
...left the Ivanov meeting with half a triumph, Albright was handed a phone. Christopher Hill was at a villa outside Rome with Rugova, who wanted to speak to her. Yes, Rugova told her, he would support NATO's bombing and negotiating positions in his public statements. "I'm glad to hear that," she replied. "We've been concerned about where you stood ever since your appearance with Milosevic on TV." Albright was relieved: if he had opposed the NATO mission, it would have been a public relations fiasco. In the grand solarium of the Petersberg center, the formal meeting...
...could almost hear the church bells tolling in the background, calling the country to a different debate, a careful conversation in which even Presidents and anchormen behave as though they are in the presence of something bigger than they are, and maybe should lower their voices a little and speak with less authority...
Watson himself does not speak in the first two novels (the second is Lost Man's River), which are told as conflicting reports by townspeople. Thus the concluding novel, Bone by Bone (Random House; 410 pages; $26.95), which is Watson's own first-person account, appears after 900 pages of teasing preamble. Because the author has advertised his main character as a monstrous enigma, he must now provide the monster. But Watson's villainy doesn't reach heroic stature. He is a likable bully and a good shot. Most notably, he is a brutal drunk. "When I give...