Word: handing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...that gave him a chance) now finds the veep ahead 46 percent to 42 percent. By some calculations, the election's just getting warmed up. Voters at large generally don't pay much close attention to the presidential race until after the conventions - which is now. On the other hand, the candidate ahead on Labor Day generally wins - and that's Monday...
...biggest score, though, has been to blunt Bush's promise to "restore honor and dignity to the White House" by making it seem that he's just as good a guy as George W. - well, maybe not as likable, but just as monogamous. Now Bush finds himself in hand-to-hand combat on Gore's wonky turf, and issues have not been his best weapons. For this year's voters, Bush's tax cut seems too big and his Social Security privatization seems too bold. Bush is selling change and Gore is selling incumbency, and now that the veep...
Being given a new hand is not for everybody. Doctors took great pains to match Scott's new hand with his other one. Both are male and similar in color and size. Still, carrying around an extremity that isn't one's own can be psychologically unsettling, even more so than using a lifeless prosthesis. "It requires someone who is completely unable to accept a prosthesis, someone who simply can't incorporate it into his body image," says Jones. Patients must also live with the knowledge that their newfound dexterity may decline over time if rejection sets in. Perhaps most...
...when his dog cheerfully buries his snout in her crotch. Lawyer Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), cohabiting with scruffy bartender Steve, agrees to buy a pooch with him, and it becomes a metaphor for their unworkable relationship. Husband-hunting Charlotte (Kristin Davis) learns to control her new fiance with a hand on the wrist: Roll over, boy! Then there's Carrie's on-and-off-and-on squeeze Mr. Big (Chris Noth), a sexy, powerful (and married) alpha wolf...
...needle of my own verdict is stuck somewhere between 1) and 2). I am a man who finds even presidential hand-holding (those Hansel-and-Gretel moments with Bill and Hillary and Al and Tipper skipping across the White House lawn as if they were children on a trip to the zoo) to be ridiculous. But the Gores' kiss was so over the top as to command a new kind of attention. If the kiss was manipulative, it was daringly so. I search my memory for historical precedents.... Dick and Pat Nixon in Miami Beach in 1972? Bess and Harry...