Word: warming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rickles, Henry Kissinger and former President Gerald Ford. Like many pals, Ford has invested in Davis' oil deals over the years. Says Ford: "You look at Marvin, and he looks like a tough, mean guy -- and he is a tough businessman. But on a personal side, he's a warm person, a nice guy to be with...
They decided to close the book with a passage about Hoffman's funeral, chock-full of warm, touchy-feely stories about those assembled there. Included are upbeat lyrics of a Pete Seeger song about Abbie's spirt living on and a nice blurb about Abbie's mom clapping...
...political elements Brinkley brings to the novel more than make up for it; it is precisely this concept that most spy novels lack. Particularly fascinating is the view of inevitable corruption permeating whatever government controls Managua, an outlook that would warm even a hardened cynic's heart but leave ardent supporters of America's fight to democratize the world feeling slightly...
...world keeps peeping in, especially in Scully's color, which is richly organic and never blatant. Its tawny ochers and deep blues suggest landscape, though in a distant way. The whites in Pale Fire, 1988, are not flat white but a subtle paste applied over a warm brown ground in rapidly varying touches, so that they have the visual elasticity of flesh. Scully is a conservative, measured colorist. His sense of art, the seemingly obsolete act of communicating by smearing mud on cloth, is anchored in the past. You can see traces of his idols throughout -- especially, in his liking...
...good looks: striking but somehow wholesome, more high school prom queen than Hollywood glamour puss. Then there's the rich, honeyed voice: husky and authoritative, but free of the severe tone affected by some females in TV news. As a reader of the news, she is masterly: businesslike but warm, her eyes now wide with the drama of the day, now crinkling ever so slightly with concern. Diane Sawyer doesn't just deliver the news, she performs...