Word: flashes
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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After all the debates, the millions spent on commercials, the flash polling, the pretending to care about Social Security--it came down to my grandmothers. It has been 15 years since either side of my family has included them in a discussion of where to eat dinner, and the leader of the free world is going to be chosen by their inability to read a ballot. I'm pretty sure they were just looking for attention...
...members of the viral world evoke as many Stephen King-like notions of horror and human frailty. It's hardly a major killer in the global scheme of things. Even when compared to other flash-in-the-pan outbreaks, Ebola epidemics cannot, by virtue of numbers of people killed, be considered a top concern on the health radar screen...
...FLASH! Still calculating whether hormone-replacement therapy is for you? Here's one for the minus column. Granted, asthma isn't common in postmenopausal women, but a new study reveals that those who take hormones increase their risk of developing the illness...
...worry: the other side has something shocking of its own. Americans Against Hate, a newly formed group run by G.O.P. consultant Stephen Marks, is up in four states with a spot linking Gore with the Rev. Al Sharpton. Sharpton, says the announcer, admires Hitler (flash to photo of the dictator) and defends rapists and cop killers (video of Willie Horton-style mug shots). The ad asks, "Mr. Gore...what kind of unholy alliance will you have with Al Sharpton?" Another ad, sponsored by a mysterious outfit called Aretino Industries, tells us that the Clinton-Gore Administration has traded national security...
American politics looks just about as seedy and exhausted as it comes baying toward the finish of the presidential race. I had a nasty flash of self-awareness (seeing us as others see us) on the car radio heading away from the marathon when I tuned in an Irish-American station. It quoted a Dublin political columnist who remarked that the American presidential race amounted to a choice between a creep and a moron. It's OK when WE say it, Paddy, but watch yourself. I found myself feeling almost protective about Gore and Bush. That's OUR creep...