Word: feets
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...however, have unfortunately been a bit out of touch with current events as of late. Rumor has it that they've been busy rolling over ever since Tom Menino was elected mayor of Boston. The upcoming presidential election has them in a bit over their heads (about six feet). For whom might these souls arise to vote come November...
After the debate, self-satisfied Gore operatives moved about the press room, and Berman caught sight of Carter Eskew, the Vice President's message strategist and principal knife sharpener. Berman leaped to his feet, strode across the room and gave Eskew a big, happy hug. Then Gore's campaign manager, Donna Brazile, came over and slapped Berman on the back. It was the same thing that had just happened onstage, the victor playing kissy-face with the vanquished, but there was more to it than that, because Al Gore owes Bill Bradley a huge debt. Meeting the stiff challenge that...
...morning looked like a character out of Horatio Alger. Bradley didn't cosset himself in a limo but drove his own battered Oldsmobile, wore the same no-designer tie day after day and had shoes so worn that a Congressman said someone should steal them off his feet while he was asleep and shine them...
...them to any other Cybiko users who happen to be around. While the device's range is 300 ft., each has a kind of repeater built in, so that a message can be relayed over great distances--if you could somehow assemble a chain of users every few hundred feet. Such an ad hoc local wireless network could theoretically hold up to 99 daughters. A bigger limitation, however, may be its price: $149 per unit is pretty steep...
...America displays Sontag in a relaxed, pleasure-seeking mode, guiding her characters through a long travelogue in time, specifically the beginnings of the gilded age in the brave new world. Here are sumptuous theaters in Manhattan and hotels in San Francisco; a journey 1,900 feet down into a silver mine in Virginia City, Nev.; cameo appearances by such luminaries as Henry James and Edwin Booth...