Word: fun
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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After the drubbing in South Carolina, the pranksters weren't having any fun at all. That Sunday, McCain and his crew sat in the Hyatt in Dearborn, Mich., facing the challenge of clawing their way back into contention. He would have to face a grilling by Tim Russert on Meet the Press. He was down. "The whole country is watching," said political strategist Mike Murphy. "They'll see whether you're mopey or if you're ready to be President." McCain quickly started to come out of it. Aides could see him say to himself, "What? A fight...
...trust surrounds him on the road, huddling with the candidate in the galley of the bus or sprawling over the beds and sofas of his hotel suites to chart strategy. As McCain brought each of them into the campaign, he made one thing clear: "We're going to have fun." And they do, partly because they have convinced themselves that they are part of the Hollywood version of their political adventure. When they talk, you can sometimes hear the theme music...
Spirit Week may provide a few fun diversions, and we are not denying that Harvard students could stand to loosen up a bit. But it will not, as the council claims, unite us around anything other than ridicule of the council itself...
...truth universally acknowledged that a Bridget Jones novel that begins with "Hurrah! The wilderness years are over" must be setting up a false dawn. What fun, after all, would it be seeing the same woman whose diary invented a whole support vocabulary for Singletons turn into a Smug Going-Out-With-Someone? Fortunately, while Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason begins where Bridget Jones' Diary left off-i.e. in happily-ever-after mode, with Bridget making goo-goo eyes at new-found beau Mark Darcy-the heroine reverts back to her neurotic type, convinces herself that Mark secretly...
...have problems with the Pudding show's exclusion of female cast members and I have objections to the socially elitist, gender-exclusive final clubs. But I also knew that the show would be rowdy. So I decided to put aside my concerns for what I hoped would be a fun, relaxed evening of entertainment. What I did not know was that the event would devolve into a tasteless and blatantly offensive display of heterosexism and homophobia...