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...where is our Hedda Hopper, our Liz Smith?) She sang ballads and love songs and novelty songs, slow songs and fast songs, Weill and Porter and Loewe and Bernstein, in addition to Gershwin and, what she said was her favorite (there's no accounting for such things), Sondheim. She strode on stage in front of the orchestra, futzed humorously with her red shawl, and broke right into "Nice Work If You Can Get It" without an awkward moment. She owned the stage -- a small stage, it's true, but she owned it nonetheless...
BOSTON--Democratic Sen. John F. Kerry's (D-Mass.) "Victory '96 Concert" was about finished when 1970s rocker Carly Simon strode to the stage, nodded at Kerry and turned to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.), the state's senior senator...
...strode to the dais, Barbour, the chair of the Republican National Committee, was greeted with chants of "four more years" from the largely pro-Democratic audience. Dodd, the Democratic National Committee chair, looked on with amusement...
...poor people are batterers. A social worker in the room rebuked him. As Dole was struggling to extricate himself, his aides hustled him away. But aware of how it would look if he ended this rare ghetto visit without pressing the flesh, Dole hopped out of the car and strode across the street into a local rib joint. The customers, most of them unemployed black men, answered his congenial banter with hard-eyed stares. Not five minutes later, his face fixed in a pained smile, Dole retreated to his motorcade. As he crossed what must have seemed like miles...
When counsel for the defense strode to the bar, we slowly became aware that we were inhaling hairspray--picture your stereotypical, sleezoid mob lawyer and you only begin to brush the surface. But his ridiculous appearance was nothing compared to his questions. First came: "How many of you watch 'E.R.?'" Several of us raised our hands proudly and several others followed sheepishly. "Um hmm" came his victorious reply as he made notes--he had caught us! After that, I just tuned out, not really wanting to deal with why the lawyer was asking me if I watched a popular medical...