Word: spokenness
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...pure politics. Miyamoto wasn't cutting it as a political wife, says longtime aide Isao Iijima. He told Koizumi, "Choose between your family and your political career." Divorce Japan-style means a permanent severing of ties. Koizumi kept the sons, and Miyamoto has not seen her boys or spoken with them since. "I desperately wanted to, but the Koizumi family decided otherwise," she says...
...Pepsi. Now that she is blond, represents an American soft drink and has an upper-crust Argentine fiance, will she be able to remain the same hard-driving Colombian rockera? "I plan to keep on being the same artist, with the same musical language, just in a different spoken language this time," says Shakira. "It's all still coming from my real feelings, my real-life experiences." In other words, watch out. Shakira plans...
...married life, the comic squalors of cruise-ship travel and the shenanigans of global capitalism. It also has language that builds in powerful, rolling strides. And it has characters, the separately unraveling Lamberts, who get very deeply under your skin. So who can blame the amiable and soft-spoken author, Jonathan Franzen, if he sounds a little cheeky these days? "You can get a million people to read your book in this country," he says. "It's not a tiny audience for fiction. It's not chamber music...
...made-for-cable feel. But both, by forcing contestants to interact with the natives, prove that loosing Americans to inflict their geographic and cultural ignorance on the world is a guaranteed hoot (as when a Lost contestant insists that Cyrillic script "looks like Israeli"). Never mind "The tribe has spoken"; this season's big reality-TV catchphrase will be, "Do you speak English...
...Liberals have long spoken with contempt of Limbaugh's woofing and hooting, his mockeries of Bill and Hillary Clinton and nearly every other Democrat and environmentalist and bleeding heart to the left of George S. Patton. It must be said that Limbaugh, with three radio hours at his disposal five days a week, sometimes follows up the tomato attacks with what is often fairly sharp analysis of the issues. You may think he is wrong, but he's often more logical than liberals generally think...