Word: hyperthyroidism
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Canadians, if they are in a bad mood, consider that their neighbors to the south are a hyperthyroid, overprivileged, overbearing, overstimulated, venal crowd, self-important to the point of narcissism. Who can deny it? To the American's cartooning imagination, on the other hand, the Canadian seems - if you will forgive a circular argument - an awful lot like Al Gore...
...against Bill Bradley, that Fred MacMurray dad out of the '50s, by giving off disquieting signals from some region of his personality - the sense of a man incompletely evolved, the vibration of a struggling son. But maybe that was only a bout of Humphrey's Disease, the gabby and hyperthyroid fatuousness that afflicts vice presidents trying to break loose...