Word: warners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where everyone is so civil and cordial they just pitch in unbidden. When Dole ran for majority leader in 1985, his friends watched in horror as he frittered away week after week making speeches instead of locking up votes. John Danforth of Missouri, Bob Packwood of Oregon and John Warner of Virginia finally had to pull Dole aside and read him the riot act. "You need to ask people for their votes," Warner implored. "You need to be getting commitments." But having said that, they went and did it for him anyway. Over the years, on vote after vote...
...right hand, it was as though his body set about the business of compensation, like the blind man who depends more on his hearing. "It's almost as if the affliction of the wound, which limits his writing ability, improves his ability to implant it in his head," Warner says. The muscles formed in his memory, in his ability to juggle half a dozen ideas or agendas or details with an ease that left his colleagues gasping. "I'd have something important to tell him," recalls Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson...
...laugh. But then it would be Dole who would do nine events in South Dakota for Pressler in a single day later that summer. And when Dole was publicly warned by right-wing groups not to make an endorsement in Virginia's ugly Senate primary last spring, incumbent Warner went to his old friend and said, "Don't risk coming. The presidency is far more important than I am." Warner recalls that Dole just smiled, saying as he walked away, "I'll be there...
Rather than raising the salary bar in the business, Daly says, "this was not a groundbreaking deal." But he acknowledges that he is "very worried" about the perception, even within the industry, that Warner has raised the stakes yet again. "Some of the agents in town who [understand] the deal--they have a client problem," he says. "The clients think the price is $25 million, which is not true...
This eerie moment forms the emotional and intellectual hinge of Rafael Yglesias' eighth novel, Dr. Neruda's Cure for Evil (Warner Books; 694 pages; $24.95). Unfortunately, it occurs 465 pages into the narrative, well past the halfway mark but nowhere near the end of a long, long reading haul. Psychoanalysis, the so-called talking cure, has rarely, if ever, received a talkier fictional presentation...