Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest loser by far was Whitlam, 61, the burly, blunt-spoken lawyer who in 1972 engineered Labor's first victory in 23 years and as Prime Minister managed to install many of the fixtures of welfare-state-ism in Australia, notably its first national health service. As soon as Labor's massive defeat became obvious, Whitlam announced that he would step down as party leader, thus leaving his former treasurer, Bill Hayden, 44, as his most likely successor. By contrast, the results were a minor victory for the Democrats' Don Chipp, 52, a Liberal renegade whose centrist...
Moore is shy and, understandably, a bit defensive. His style is certainly not that of a big-time manipulator. With a bulging middle, sleepy eyes, a soft-spoken manner and a good-ole-boy drawl, Moore seems much like the University of Georgia fraternity man he once was. The blue carpet in his White House office is decorated with a red mat emblazoned with his alma mater's mascot, a growling bulldog, and the slogan GO, YOU HAIRY DOGS. On a table is a phonograph for his four children-ages six, eight, ten and twelve -and Amy Carter...
...norm. Thus the multiplication of leads is justifiable, even if it does not really work. The triumvirate of directors makes an honest stab at bringing elements of dance and mime into the production. but their efforts tend to be too confusing and ineffective. For example, many of the lines spoken by Miranda (Andrea Eisenberg) and Caliban (Marc Baum) are repeated a bear or two later by their doubles and/or triples. The result is a boring, seemingly endless round-robin effect that slows the tempo and makes it harder for the actors to maintain dramatic tension...
...months, Soviet farm experts in Moscow had spoken of average and possibly even record harvests. Agriculture Department inspectors visiting the U.S.S.R. were taken out to collectives to see sturdy stands of corn and wheat-fields that they now know to have been exceptions. Even the CIA was taken in. It has been trying to keep tabs on Soviet agriculture with eye-in-the-sky photo satellites, and its findings have been reasonably accurate in the past. But this time the photo interpretations went awry, because of what the agency calls bad 'ground truth" data-information from the observers escorted...
Koch and Byrne were good fodder for the TV commercials that Garth writes and directs. He favors blunt, factual spots with few frills; He also subscribes to Marshall McLuhan's theory that "cool" images are more effective than "hot" ones on TV. Koch and Byrne, both plain-spoken and low-keyed, fit the Garth format...