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...hunched like a gunfighter, arms poised to pull his pistols. To punctuate a point, he'd sometimes squat and bow his arms as if he were trying to lift a water cooler. Or he'd poke the air like a man torturing an elevator button. And, boy, could he paint a wicked rhetorical picture. A particular favorite popped up at an energy-policy speech in Saginaw, Mich. Like most of his speeches important enough for a TelePrompTer, his emphasis track was unhooked from the actual text. Suddenly, a throwaway line got too much fancy sauce, making him sound...
Workers are washing the outside walls now, while painters stand by to brush on a fresh coat of white paint for a fresh President and his family, come Jan. 20, 2001. On that afternoon, as the Inauguration parade winds down Pennsylvania Avenue, 120 men and women will move the Clintons out and the new First Family in, lock stock and canary if there is one. And the old mansion will be aglow in the winter light and ready to write a new chapter, with its 132 rooms cleaned and polished, its tennis court, jogging track, putting green, basketball hoop, swimming...
...White House got some new coats of white paint and was made habitable in a rushed three years. An impatient James Monroe opened it with a rousing reception on New Year's Day 1818. The place was packed. Writes historian William Seale: "The heavy odors of wet plaster and paint must have rivaled society's usual smells of rouge and plaster and pearl powder, camphor and macassar hair oil." The powerful newspaper the National Intelligencer was uplifted: "It was gratifying to be able once more to salute the President of the United States with the compliments of the season...
...trick was to try to cast McCain as a phony, take a guy with a consistently conservative voting record and paint him as a dangerous liberal, suggest that the war hero was somehow un-American, or at least un-South Carolinian. Out came the antipersonnel weapons: "He's not one of us," and "He doesn't share our conservative values," and "He's outside the mainstream." On McCain's lack of "conservative values," Rove piped up to say, "We have to get in his face on that. He's vulnerable." Added Tompkins: "He's an insider. When I hear this...
Sarah Johnson, a 6'4 center, and 6'2 forward Kate Ides, two sophomores with a year's experience under their belts, will help key the Crimson's efforts in the paint and on the board, although Sarah Johnson will likely be out until December with a knee injury. Center Lindsay Ryba, a 6'3 All-Ivy freshman pick two seasons ago who missed much of her sophomore year, will also see action in the middle, although she likes to shade out towards the arc where she is a dead-eye shooter when left open. Sharon Nunamaker...