Word: stentorian
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...juggler hold, just hold, a lemon. Williams traces his yen for straight roles to Manhattan's Juilliard School, where he studied acting. 'I had my Juilliard training -- ((highbrow accent:)) 'I'm an actor here' -- and then I do comedy on the side. It's this Jekyll-and-Jessel thing -- ((stentorian voice:)) 'Actor during the day; at night, strange man who talks about his genitals.' " Still, playing romantic leads in forgettable films chafed the sacred maniac inside him. "When your favorite actors are Peter Sellers and Peter Lorre, you're not seeing yourself saying ((a la Clark Gable:)), 'Frankly, my dear...
...tall (6 ft. 1 in.) bulky man with a Captain Ahab beard and a stentorian voice, Koop recognizes that his largely symbolic job as the nation's top public-health official provides little more than a bully pulpit. "Anything I've done in the five years I've been Surgeon General," he explains, "has been with moral suasion and borrowed money." His crusades have ranged from a call for a "smoke-free society by the year 2000" to militant advocacy of the rights of deformed infants. Koop, who delights in the gold braid of the traditional Surgeon General's uniform...
Their personalities seem fixed, but like the politicians they cover, the five do change. Sam Donaldson once gave rude behavior its name; he is still stentorian, but on ABC's David Brinkley show, he questions guests intelligently. His colleague George Will has also changed but believes he has not. Will first surfaced as a conservative polemicist. On becoming a highly articulate TV interviewer, he crowded his guests, suggesting that they were not sufficiently militant about intervening in Lebanon, Syria or Nicaragua. If Will emerged seeming bolder and more candid than the person he interviewed, his guest--a politician, a bureaucrat...
...thought criminal." But there is a soft underbelly to the Ralph Rotten story, a sense that he delights in his pastime of epaler le bourgeoisie. "Watch this," he'll say, winking to the older customers perched on their stools by the counter, and then he'll direct his stentorian bellow towards he rear booths: "Hey Lucy, put your feet on the floor!" "Lucy" is his collective name for all women; when asked about it he le laurels, surprised. "I don't know--'Lucy,' it sounds cuckoo. I use it to embarrass them a little bit, I guess, so they...
Another routine used the overused device of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, a theme that has already become a parody of itself. It did have its clever moments, though: in this brave new world, Studio 54 became the Ministry of Fun and a stentorian disc jockey commanded the dancers, "Fellow citizens, do the Pony...