Word: twangs
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...Letterman's advice to Fleetwood Mac: "Stop!") That catchy jingle was the only tune on America's mental jukebox last week, when movie and music stars descended on Washington in numbers not seen since the bond drives of World War II. The whole wide world of American tinsel and twang -- Oprah Winfrey, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, Bill Cosby, Kathleen Battle, Macaulay Culkin, Harry Belafonte -- showed up, swelling the Rat Pack of John F. Kennedy's day to Hamelin proportions, offering its best wishes to a new Administration. Chuck Berry updated the lyrics to his '50s chugger Reelin' and Rockin...
...Lincoln's Bavarian-born secretary, John G. Nicolay), among many others, seem to have been recruited mainly for marquee value. Their too famous voices distract from the subject matter; nor do they bring any particular eloquence to their tasks, least of all Jason Robards, who overdoes the corn-pone twang as the most uncharismatic Lincoln imaginable...
...which, of course, many of them do), half a dozen inmates drift his way. One complains about missing laundry; another asks that recreational time be extended. All are polite, but none display the eagerness of someone anxious to please. Whitley, 48, listens intently, asking occasional questions in a gravelly twang. Nothing in his courteous demeanor suggests, I am the keeper, you are the kept. "You understand that even if it's a small problem, it may be the biggest problem they have," he says later. "You don't just blow anyone...
...then, political establishments almost invariably prefer a fellow incumbent to an unknown quantity. At times, Clinton's proposed diplomatic initiatives -- reconstruction aid to Russia, for example -- made Bush seem flat-footed. At others, though, Clinton came across abroad as a naive son-of- Jimmy Carter, complete with Southern twang and somewhat preachy mission. To a world grown dizzy with change, the last thing it would seem to want is a mystery man at America's helm of state...
...claim he was "owned" by no one but his followers. It turned out there just weren't enough of them to bring him even close to the victory he kept promising. If he had been just another computer salesman from Dallas with a 1930s haircut and a nasal twang, he probably would never have got his name on the ballot, let alone been admitted to the inner circle of candidates. His money -- plus his record as a can-do entrepreneur -- gained him that much. But it's doubtful, given who Perot is and how he chose to run, that...