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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...walked the stage hunched like a gunfighter, arms poised to pull his pistols. To punctuate a point, he'd sometimes squat and bow his arms as if he were trying to lift a water cooler. Or he'd poke the air like a man torturing an elevator button. And, boy, could he paint a wicked rhetorical picture. A particular favorite popped up at an energy-policy speech in Saginaw, Mich. Like most of his speeches important enough for a TelePrompTer, his emphasis track was unhooked from the actual text. Suddenly, a throwaway line got too much fancy sauce, making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Did He Really Say That? | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...those of you who haven't raised an eight-year-old boy lately, has evolved from a normally proportioned grunt into a buff, ripped, mega muscular warrior who, if he were a real man, would have 27-inch biceps and other proportions achievable only through years of bench presses, protein diets and the liberal use of steroids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Measuring Up | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...century, in terms of the elevation of individual expression, and the service of the individual expression to a group experience. Movies are always based on that. There's an irreverence for material, but a reverence for quick wits and thinking. There is the whole question of the sophisticated country boy. Abraham Lincoln was an example. This guy off of a farm somewhere delivered the Gettysburg Address. These archetypes exist in our way of looking at things. Jazz is about a process of putting things together. There's no right or wrong in it, it's just a way of doing...

Author: By Malik B. Ali, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jazz Culture: Marsalis Blows His Own Trumpet | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...trip from Hawaii to Massachusetts is neither an easy nor inexpensive voyage. Understandably, Rose's family will hope its golden boy can come through with a typical Rose performance...

Author: By Alex M. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rose Rises to the Occasion | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...those unacquainted with Balestracci's remarkable accomplishments thus far, his is a story of a local boy who has made good...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New Kid on the Block | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

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