Word: hideaway
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Vice President-Elect Richard Cheney, who has more bypasses than the New Jersey Turnpike, seems to like to diet on the edge. Cheney attended the Wednesday lunch for moderate Republicans hosted by Sen. Arlen Specter in his Capitol hideaway. Spector and the other members of the "Mod Squad," as they're nicknamed - Sen. Susan M. Collins of Maine, Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont, and Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island - ordered salads and fruit. Cheney dug into a plate of fried chicken. Has anyone briefed him on cholesterol...
...sure the American people can endure it. We are saturated. The partisan noise over Elian Gonzalez and the Reno raid has driven us almost to the edge of mental illness (and maybe bankruptcy - who is paying for all of this opulent security, by the way, and the plantation hideaway, and the little playmates being shipped up from Cuba, and the endless pizza eaten by the highest officials of the land?) That is enough. Let not the politicians (to use Dylan Thomas' words) "blaspheme down the stations of the breath/with any further elegy on innocence and youth." Let's keep children...
Forget dinner, forget work, forget sleep. I was glued to my computer for hours as I obsessively scoured the Web. When I found my first megawebsite dedicated to vacation rentals, I giddily clicked from one listing to another, certain I would quickly find the perfect hideaway...