Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Castellanos, whose past work includes a race-baiting Jesse Helms advertisement showing white hands ripping up a job rejection letter, has struck an unapologetic stance over the subliminal blip. "We don't play ball that way," he told reporters Monday. "I'm not that clever." Unfortunately for Castellanos, the rest of us aren't that stupid. We know that political advertising is a high-stakes game; ads are built from the ground up, and every single frame is scrutinized for unwelcome intrusions and subtle messages. Somebody on Castellanos's staff deliberately injected the "RATS" frame, and now everybody is playing...
TALKING A GOOD GAME When you've got both hands wrapped around a flamethrower, you can hardly be expected to take a phone call. That's why Microsoft came up with the SideWinder Game Voice ($54.95), a clever gadget that lets online gamers talk among themselves while they play. Since the call is placed over the Internet, you don't even have to pay for long distance. Friends sold separately...
...always loved going back to school; for the first couple of days, at least, the whole new school year experience was exceedingly pleasant. My parents would take me to get new school supplies, and my clever and often ear-splitting negotiating tactics meant that I had a good shot at returning home with a new, utterly useless prize, like a special bendable pencil or a cherry-scented pen. On the eve of the new school year, I would organize my new loot carefully, caressing the shiny loose-leaf folders, sharpening the pencils, testing out the pink erasers...
...there's the problem. Big-time political campaigns don't like clever. They don't trust clever. They don't get clever. And clever, unfortunately, this...
...This is clever. It not only implies that Gore was more hawkish on Vietnam than his populist old man, it makes it sound as though he enlisted practically in defiance of his old man, rather than to support dad's coming reelection campaign. We see a serious-faced, saddened-looking young Al in fatigues in Nam, and hear that "when he comes home from Vietnam, the last thing he thinks he'll ever do is enter politics" - again, a line we heard more than once at the convention. (Al Gore is not a political scion who spent most...