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...more. The voters have sung with voices stentorian in Massachusetts. This is only the beginning. The song being sung across America is about the audacity of the voters. Ignore them at your peril. At the end of the day, those who put you in power have the power. We are the people of the United States and we have had enough. The president can pay for his own walk—a walk that will lead from the White House all the way back to Chicago in 2012. Congress can tremble knowing the “audacity of hope?...

Author: By Kimberly N. Meyer | Title: The Audacity of the Voters | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

...much of an élitist I am." To say what a pervert Franken is, Coleman alluded to a smutty humor piece about virtual sex that Franken wrote for Playboy eight years ago. Of course, Franken has said much worse, especially if you repeat a joke in the stentorian voice of a political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not So Funny | 8/14/2008 | See Source »

...Bushes; he inadvisedly posed for a photo with a white supremacist leader. He spoke at any conservative function that would have him, and what group wouldn't? At these appearances he showed a thespic vitality absent from his diminishing turns before the movie and TV cameras. The actor's stentorian talents may have been looking for the kind of forum they had lately been denied in films. If screenwriters would no longer write heroic lines for his movie characters, he'd do it himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: Charlton Heston | 4/6/2008 | See Source »

...backgrounds digitally green-screened in later, in the manner of Robert Rodriguez's version of the Miller Sin City. It's also not bad for a movie that's not good. For all its battle-scene gore, 300 is at heart a talky civics lesson. It's dead-serious, stentorian and, when it's not hacking muscular fighters to bits, pretty stodgy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 7 Reasons Why 300 Is a Huge Hit | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

John Warner, with his lantern jaw, double-breasted suits and stentorian voice, has always looked the part of distinguished Senator. But for much of his three decades in the Senate, his actual record as a lawmaker was a ledger of modest and narrow accomplishments, mostly related to defense bills. In the past five years, however, the Republican has become one of the Senate's most influential members, thanks to a readiness to strike compromises on a host of high-profile issues ranging from co-sponsoring the anti-torture Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 to anchoring the "Gang of 14" bipartisan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Warrior in the Line of Fire | 1/31/2007 | See Source »

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