Word: wordly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...write everything together," said Cook through Lerner, "but [my performance] is not word for word. There's a lot of addition. Also, we judge the audience--if they're really conservative, we might not do all of our stuff...
...smiles when he says it, but in fact the game has some serious resonance for him. "You find a word, but you don't stop," he explains. "You're constantly looking for alternatives, never settling for the obvious." McFerrin, 38, has been a musician for all his professional life and a singer for more than a decade. From his first big-time gig, playing piano in the Ice Follies band, to his current in-concert, one-man musical parody of The Wizard of Oz, he has never settled for anything less than unique...
...intervening decades. But it is his lonely struggle to produce a big book that has impressed some pretty influential folks. Yale professor Harold Bloom calls Brodkey "unparalleled in American prose fiction since the death of William Faulkner." Susan Sontag says Brodkey is "going for real stakes. I read every word he writes." The author, who lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side, has sometimes been willing to join the chorus of his admirers: "It's dangerous to be as good a writer...
...Word went out to Democratic surrogates all over the country to portray what was a solid Bentsen win into a Waterloo for the Republicans. Within 24 hours the Democrats were airing a commercial they had started preparing two weeks ago precisely for this turn of events. Part of Dukakis' "packagers" series in which five crafty imagemakers plot how best to deceive the American public about Bush, the commercial depicts the cynical image-manipulators in a smoke- filled room. Packager No. 1: "We've got a disaster on our hands." No. 2: "After all that rehearsal, I thought we had Quayle...
...Dukakis, who had boasted in August that he would win the state, is belatedly retreating. Last week his two chief organizers transferred to the Midwest, and more are to follow. He has also given up much of the Cotton South. From a meeting of some of his Dixie managers, word seeped out that Democratic hopes were reduced to what they grandly called the "Big Five" Southern and border states -- Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina. But they add up to just 51 electoral votes, and Dukakis at the moment can count on none of them...