Word: connections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...REAL POLITICS, Nov. 8] on Al Gore's "groveling for votes" and Bill Bradley's "barely asking": I would ask, Just what is it that journalists want from politicians, anyway? The newshounds tell candidates who seem straitlaced and unemotional that they should loosen up. When the candidates try to connect more, they're seen as begging. For my money, I'd rather see a politician be himself, even if he is boring. We've had enough "personality" in the White House lately. I'd like to see someone who is actually interested in doing the job, not just in winning...
Wilford tried to go to Cremarosa on the next two plays, but he was unable to connect both times...
Bush's most important success, he said, is his ability to connect with people...
...last six or eight weeks," he said, "I've had a learning experience." Make that a near-death experience--that vertiginous moment when a politician looks into the near future, sees himself writing his memoirs and responds with a frenzied attempt to connect. In the last days of the 1992 campaign, President Bush had that kind of revelation and jetted around the country, waving his arms and shouting himself hoarse. Gore's memento mori has come earlier in the cycle, so unlike Bush, he has time to come down from his adrenaline rush and make his case in a calmer...
...Tiberias and not after Tiberius the Roman Emperor. Most readers may be more familiar with the name Sea of Galilee. It is also called Lake of Gennesar in ancient sources, after the settlement on the northwestern coast of the Sea of Galilee. If names mean anything, then these clearly connect this body of water with geographic areas associated with the state of Israel. JOSHUA SCHWARTZ Efrat, Israel...