Word: windedness
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Now she defends Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton's proposal to raise the CAFE standards to 40 miles per gallon by 2000 ("Gas Pains for Long-Winded Candidates," October 26)--even going so far as to claim that "fuel efficiency regulations work for the long-term benefit of the auto industry...
It was near midnight, and Richard Price was stranded, notebook in hand, in the lobby of a bleak housing project with a surly crowd massing outside. Price had followed a cop who was chasing a drug dealer into the building, only to have them vanish up one of three stairways...
In an era when artistic discourse has tended to be nasty, brutish and short- winded, Olivier Messiaen's musical grands projects stand apart from -- and largely above -- the works of his more prosaic mid-century contemporaries. Devoutly Catholic, the French composer was blessed with a pagan sense of muscular rhythm...
Throughout his youth, Scorsese thought he had a calling too. The future director of The Last Temptation of Christ yearned to be a priest. But another vocation beckoned. Charles and Catherine Scorsese, who today make occasional endearing cameo appearances in their son's films, took young Marty to the movies...
Kenneth E. Reeves '72 also merits consideration. Reeves is not a perfect councillor. He has a temper and a tendency to make long-winded speeches. More important, we question Reeve's decision to retain his rent controlled apartment. We do not know his salary, but as a private lawyer and...