Word: lite
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...congressional Republicans because they're all so nasty and partisan up there in Washington, and he vows to bring civility to the place. His Big Tent will be the biggest ever. Why should a little disagreement over abortion make us all tense and angry with one another? The ideology-lite candidate, Bush was able to change from compassionate conservative to Bob Jones conservative and back again inside six weeks with near impunity, while Al Gore was ripped apart for changing the color of his clothes...
...marriage, you eliminate the option of walking out from a mind-set point of view," explains Mike Johnson of Baton Rouge. Mike, a 27-year-old attorney, wed Kelly, a 26-year-old teacher, a year ago in a covenant pact. "We're saying, 'Let's not do marriage lite,'" says Mike. At which point Kelly interposes, "It's marriage heavy...
Sipping a Miller Lite at Harrys' of Arlington in Arlington Heights, Ill., and watching the third installment, Christopher Wojcik, 24, declares, "I think it's fixed, and I don't buy any of it." He has not, however, missed an episode. "That older guy that got killed off the show last week deserved it. You just don't wash your clothes in the fresh-water supply," he says, referring to the transgression that helped get Andersen the boot. (Note: Losers are not actually executed, but Fox hasn't worked up a knockoff series yet.) "Don't vote...
...result, lurching haphazardly between melodrama and MTM-lite comedy, is not just inferior but unsettlingly wrong, like a beloved relative reanimated as a zombie. Moore and Harper click instantly--Rhoda might well have been cryogenically preserved since 1978, and shows charming touches of her mother Ida when hectoring her own daughter--but they're burdened with sentimentality and limp one-liners. The Mary we see here shows glimpses of her self-effacing but strong self, yet at other times, incongruously, seems to have become a helpless uptown lady-who-lunches and slips into self-help-speak like...
...suffers from a tendency to tell stupid, adolescent jokes). At the same time, New Hampshire suggests that the Grown-up Factor has caught up with George W. Bush; I suspect it will go on punishing him, unless he can reverse the deepening perception that he is a little too "lite" for the job. Footage of him and his father in New Hampshire the other day looked like pictures from parents' weekend...