Word: curious
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...should have known not only that Ross Perot, for all his verbal machismo, has always walked away from fights once they got too tough; that he seemed to have delusions of grandeur, fed by our curious habit of treating successful entrepreneurs as geniuses; that in politics he was both amazingly naive and obnoxiously arrogant; that he promised to fix everything without spelling out what he would...
...brought us Willie Horton are back with a new anti-Clinton ad campaign, this cycle's candidate is signaling clearly that he won't pull a Dukakis and roll over without a fight. Clinton told TIME he is "not surprised" by a 60-sec. 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...
...next day we hit the swamps that have long deterred those curious about the Ndoki. We pick our way through the quicksand-like muck by feeling with our toes and walking sticks for a series of thin logs Japanese researchers have previously laid down. I slip once and fall up to my chest in mud before grabbing a root. Sobered by the slip, I ask Fay how deep the mud is. "Who knows?" he says, shrugging...
...beginning to suspect I'd misunderstood GWAR's target audience. These people were attracted to the concert not because they were curious about the boundaries of absurdity, but because they were connoisseur of violence. They seemed to be enjoying this a little too genuinely...
...this amounted to a blast of national exposure that money couldn't buy for Souljah, Clinton and Jackson. What really fueled the curious coming together of politicians, a "revolutionary" rapper and a multibillion-dollar entertainment conglomerate was their shared concern for the bottom line. Clinton achieved a key political objective: refocusing the media spotlight on his message to moderate voters that he is unafraid to deliver unpopular messages to important Democratic constituencies, including blacks. Jackson, who has been groping for a way to elbow into the campaign, obtained a grievance that he can use to browbeat Clinton for concessions. Lenin...