Word: whispers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democratic campaign committee chairman. Sen. Wendell Ford of Kentucky, said of the 33 Senate elections that some races won by Republicans were close the Democrats "came within a whisper" of retaking Senate control, which they lost...
...elegant, McClintick's tinsel raker has attracted the general public as well as the corporate elite and has climbed onto the bestseller lists. Surprisingly, it does not peer in Bel Air bedrooms. Instead, it focuses on the boardrooms of East Coast conglomerates. There, his minimoguls weep, curse and whisper. The reason? Actor Cliff Robertson had informed authorities that a $10,000 check was forged by Begelman. Why, insiders wondered, had the six-figure-salaried studio chief, a former talent agent and model for the ruthless Lyon Burke in Valley of the Dolls, not merely borrowed the money...
Wardens will whisper their private gratitude that courts have finally got money out of legislatures, but the budgets have only begun ballooning. Experts estimate that between $6 billion and $10 billion will have to be spent simply to bring existing prisons up to snuff. Yet states surely cannot expect much help from the budget-cutting Federal Government. In short, there is an upper limit to how much imprisonment citizens will underwrite, despite the talk about cracking down on criminals...
...younger sisters, Steven would take the standard boy's revenge: lock them in the closet and then throw in the thing they feared most. "He used to scare the hell out of them," Leah says. "When they were going to sleep, he would creep under their window and whisper, 'I'm the moon!' " But the fraternal bogeyman was also a small festival of phobias. "My biggest fear was a clown doll," he says. "Also the tree I could see outside my room. Also anything that might be under the bed or in the closet. Also Dragnet...
...pray you, trippingly from the tongue," Hamlet advised actors. But that was in the days before body mikes, when a performer would be hooted off the stage if the groundlings could not hear what he was saying. Now, thanks to what is euphemistically known as "sound reinforcement," a whisper can carry as far as a shout, and a clear, powerful voice, once mandatory equipment for a stage actor, is almost superfluous. Sound technicians receive prominent billing in Broadway shows, right next to set and costume designers, and the theater, which got along quite well for 2,500 years without electronics...