Word: light
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...This is essentially a promotional biography. It casts Mr. Gore's life decisions - to enlist in the Army, for example - in the most positive light." -Katharine Q. Seelye...
...Frank Bruni leads section and paper with Bush defending his tax cut as "both responsible and easily affordable in light of federal surplus projections... I've got to do a better job of making it clear." Times does its best to help. WP's Connolly finds Gore at the local swing-state VFW, "telling several thousand veterans that unlike George W. Bush, his commitment to the military began long before the 2000 presidential campaign." Then he went to a union meeting...
...University of Texas astronomer WILLIAM COCHRAN has discovered a Jupiter-size planet in the same orbit that Star Trek lore says you would find Vulcan, MR. SPOCK'S home world. That would be somewhere orbiting the star Epsilon Eridani, just a hop, skip and parsec from Earth, or 10.5 light-years to be exact...
Guinness can no longer take comfort in camouflage. The death mask is no mask at all; it is an old face seen in a naked light. Yet in our memory, that face magically morphs into a hundred others--all of them Alec Guinness, whoever he was. His career was a bold statement comprising 60 years of whispers. In an era when grossness is king, subtlety needs to be honored. That was Sir Alec's priceless gift. He revealed himself through the protean cunning of a "faceless" film artist...
...wearing a medium gray suit with a royal blue tie. He was nice looking - distinguished, with a slim build and light brown hair peppered with gray. He mentioned that he'd gone to Harvard (wouldn't tell us what year he graduated but said he was under 37 when pressed) and been an English major. I absolutely believed that he was a Harvard grad, or at the very least, extremely well educated. He was very well-spoken, very, very bright - not verbose, but he was articulate and animated. Somehow we began talking about Shakespeare (he said he loved...