Word: offending
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...winner but NOOOOOOOOOOOO... Gore blows it off to go back and talk about his signature, reinventing government. D'oh! I think Gore's too freaked by the gun owners in the battleground states to get tough on this. It's a mistake. For whatever gun owners he might offend - and I don't think it would be that many - he'd undercut Bush on "compassion" and look tougher. This was a big omission for Gore...
...taste, the man with bad taste is king. John Waters has been lobbing turd grenades at American culture since Pink Flamingos in 1972. These days, with unimaginative grossness prevailing in popular art, Waters seems a throwback, an Edwardian dandy forced to baby-sit the South Park kids. How to offend, he must wonder, without being an old fart...
...become all things to all people. He is youthful but not callow, self-assured but never cocky, intelligent without seeming intellectual. And he remains, in his megastardom, a wary and private man. Woods reveals little about himself that can be exploited and rarely offers opinions that might offend. When he speaks to reporters and fans, his voice stays in a single register, and he often rounds off well-crafted answers with vague platitudes. On the course, he doesn't play to the crowds, even as they close in on him to be next to greatness. Woods has become the world...
...report spelled out the dilemma that W. faced after his father took office: "It may seem that the President's children can do nothing right. Try something great, and appear grandiose and presumptuous. Try to lead a normal life, and appear lazy or unambitious. Try something artistic, and offend those who believe in causes. Any success will be credited by some to the family...
...doubt very much that either Kerrey or Whitman will be in the race this year. I simply say they would be the running mates who would bring the most to each ticket. Kerrey and Whitman may offend the faithful on either side, and may for that reason be unchoosable; but Whitman and Kerrey would bring some attractive magic to the middle ranges of the electorate, among the independents who will decide the election...