Word: commandeering
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...spot that invites the curious to call a number on the screen to "get to know Bill Clinton the way Gennifer Flowers did." "This is the way the Republicans make a living in national politics," says Clinton, who scornfully dismisses the President's profession of innocence and Bush's command that his troops lay off the "sleaze." "He could stop this stuff . . . in a heartbeat," says Clinton...
...bring "part of our city's soul" to the rest of the world. Among his idols is Peter the Great, whose wild equestrian statue he passes every day he is at home. "It is the symbol of the city, of enormous power. Peter wanted to learn, not just to command. With great symbols and images like that, you can't feel hopeless or helpless." Gergiev may need every bit of the emperor's strength -- along with those Kirov vitamins...
Even among Perot insiders, there is disagreement on strategy, and the high command has still not identified which voters to target. Press spokesman Jim Squires points to polls indicating a low number of undecided voters to back up his assertion that Perot must chip away at the supporters of both Clinton and Bush to win. "The task left now is to take the other guys' votes," he says. But Morton Meyerson, the chief executive of Perot's computer company, who is serving as a senior adviser to the campaign, advocates a broader appeal. "We're not going after anybody," claims...
What causes such bizarre behavior remains mysterious. For centuries schizophrenics were believed to be possessed by devils or even angels. St. Teresa of Avila was probably a schizophrenic, and so perhaps was the prophet Ezekiel, who, in addition to his many apocalyptic visions, said he heard a divine voice command him to sleep on his right side for 390 nights and then switch to his left for 40. Some archaeologists believe that holes drilled in prehistoric skulls represent efforts to release the demons of madness. During the Middle Ages, those who heard voices were frequently burned at the stake...
...Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?, Al Pacino showed a menacing fire. Three years later, in the most memorable of his six Oscar- nominated film roles, he revealed an even scarier core of ice as a Mafia don in the making in The Godfather. His intelligence, energy, aura of command and eerie humor should have made him America's leading classical actor. Instead, his career has been one of ample accomplishment but unfulfilled promise...