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But W.'s not cut out for dramatic pauses, laugh lines, etc.
At last, he entered the room, the saint himself,Moulay Madani, in a white head scarf and caftanThe fading blue of a map's Moroccan coastline,Its hem embroidered with geometric ports of call.A rugged sixty, with a longshoreman's jaw,A courtier's guile, and a statesman's earnest pauses,He first explained the crescent dagger he fingeredHad been made two centuries ago by a clever Jew.Then he squinted for my reaction.
The dribbler pauses at water's edge, then lofts the ball toward Lady Liberty, who reaches for it.
Hands on hips, he pauses, then strides toward another of those situations in which maturing Gen-Xers will inevitably find themselves, as we hear the only other bit of narration in the spot: "These are those pants ...
Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and others credit the pauses with calming jittery investors.