Word: basic
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...that's just half of the puzzle. Bush sings a sweet song. He's the uniter-not-a-divider. But his entire campaign is designed to mask a basic question: Bush may know who he is, but does anyone else in his party? While Bush runs as "a different kind of Republican," majority whip Tom DeLay has not changed; much of the rest of the leadership has not changed; the party platform has barely changed. He is treated as the messiah by conservatives left in the wilderness since Newt Gingrich was exiled, who have been willing all year long...
...country where trashing politicians is a staple of late-night comedy and water-cooler banter, the only people who are not supposed to disparage politicians are their opponents. There seems to be little distinction between underhanded smears and hard, defensible attacks, only a growing consensus that making the basic argument of a campaign - that I am the right choice and my opponent the wrong one - is somehow dirty pool...
...with sitcoms, there are really only a few basic plots for negative ads, and they are made over and over. This year the Republican Leadership Council rebroadcast the scathing attacks of Ralph Nader - no Bush lover - on Gore's environmental record; in 1980 the Reagan campaign aired the anti-Jimmy Carter fulminations of Ted Kennedy, friend to supply-siders everywhere. Bob Dole lifted a clip from the "Daisy" ad for a 1996 attack spot against Clinton. The Gore camp bashed Bush for pollution in Houston (substitute "Bush," "Dukakis" and "Boston Harbor," and you've got 1988) and tagged Bush...
...last week's article I addressed basic tracks and the first set of overdubs. "The Studio Three" will further explore the overdubbing process and enter the relaxing and rewarding life of studio mixing. The most important of the "overdub" days were those that we spent singing. The Humming's tunes specialize in three and four part harmonies, so getting solid vocal takes was more important (if but slightly) than my glockenspiel part. We sang into a Neumann microphone, a piece of German engineering that can send shivers down the spine. Look carefully to behold the soft, silver metals and finely...
...seems kind of basic that you can't read grant applications for grant money you applied for," she said...