Word: lesser
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...three days of interviews in a fast-growing, politically moderate area the Bush and Gore camps consider up for grabs and critical to their success. With a handful of exceptions, even voters who have decided on a candidate said they weren't thrilled with their choice. "Bush is the lesser of two evils," said Joe Spencer, 45, an electrical technician. Betty Ford, retired from the construction business at 52, felt the same way about Gore. "I just find him so--What's the word?--unbelievable. But it'll probably be Gore. The economy is good...
...lesser of two evils," said Camille A. Rankine '04, explaining her less than wholehearted support for Vice President Al Gore...
...that's about it for suspense. Mostly, this movie is a succession of knockoffs. Of the old TV show, naturally, but also of the lesser James Bond entries, of "The Matrix"'s visual effects in the fight scenes and of the penetration of a technologically well-defended vault, à la the first "Mission: Impossible...
...Despite getting in trouble with MasterCard this summer, Nader rips off another Madison Avenue standard - the Monster.com ad with all the little kids (itself a rip-off of those sanctimonious International Paper spots). "I want to vote for the lesser of two evils... I want to be disillusioned... I want the government to ignore me." Funny stuff from a man who if you turn him off after five minutes can leave a very deep impression...
Instead, I would argue that the 2000 New York Yankees is the Microsoft of Major League Baseball. They have created two of the most hated dynasties in the last decade. We moan that they are the manifestations of individual power-trips, that they squash the dreams of lesser-beings...