Word: trumpeting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dogged by respiratory problems, Davis' once assertive, quicksilver trumpet tone flickers and flares like an oxygen-starved flame. On Miles Ahead he sits out long passages, but with trumpeter Wallace Roney backing him up, Davis' pride and defiance burn through as he suddenly leaps into the final chorus, bobbing atop the careening rhythm with a tone that begins as a crackle and winds up pure and delicate as crystal. On the slow-building Solea, he struggles to find himself, then, catching his wind, lets fly a cascade of notes that arc and shimmer with the same brassy authority he wielded...
...woke at 3 a.m. to roam the White House corridors as so many of his predecessors had done -- Johnson, Nixon, Bush. They had paced away the dark hours contemplating war, the enduring curse of Middle East policymaking. Clinton read the Book of Joshua, hearing in his mind the trumpet blasts that rent the walls of Jericho, wanting to be sure to make the point in the ceremony that this time the trumpets "herald not the destruction of that city but its new beginning." He wandered into the kitchen "to see the morning light," and was worried it might rain...
...White House has reason to keep stoking up the pressure too. Clinton will trumpet the claim that Gore's recommended package will save $70 billion to $100 billion over five years, and will double to 200,000 the President's earlier projections on reducing the federal work force. That may be overoptimistic, but even considerably smaller savings might enable Clinton to hack his way out of a political tangle. The President has solemnly vowed to slice deeper into the federal deficit -- but how? The hairbreadth margins of his July budget victory indicate that further tax increases and deeper cuts...
...America is in danger of becoming two nations, one part privileged, the other deprived," she said in a voice that has been described by Hunt as "resounding like a trumpet, awakening us to the miseries of the helpless...
Another age, another presidency, another trumpet. Bill Clinton declared in his Inaugural Address that America will act "with force when necessary" to protect its "vital interests." But he did not stop there. He then pledged American action when "the will and conscience of the international community is defied...