Word: picked
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...that the experience taught him that "the status quo is really powerful. In times when there is not a crisis, it's hard to get people to act boldly." And Bush knows from watching his father what happens when a desire for boldness is applied to a vice-presidential pick. Two words: Dan Quayle...
berhunk Leonardo DiCaprio was originally the pick as the basketball star, but after playing the tortured character in Basketball Diaries, DiCaprio's agents considered a second dose of drug-addicted basketball playing to be somewhat excessive...
...President is going to stay close to his rocky shore in Kennebunkport, Me., in this campaign and pick up the phone when his son calls, which is almost every day. Some of the media will probably go nuts believing the deposed king is in a sinister power push for glory. But as much as anything, the talk will be about how the striped bass are running off the Maine rocks and how much water has collected in the new seven-acre lake built on W.'s Texas ranch. "It's beautiful," injects Barbara. "It has a river running through...
...point of a political convention is no longer to pick a candidate (primaries do that), but rather to offer the most attractive possible version of the party's fantasy of America, just as a television commercial creates a dream world around a product. If the chemistry and imagery work, plausibility (yes, I see that, I feel that, I respond to that) leads on to inevitability...
...debates loom large and the Democrats converge on Los Angeles to pick up their own momentum, Bush and Cheney are in for a debilitating and, if the last few days of inter-party barbs are any indication, bruising campaign season. They now face the classic political challenge: Capture the euphoria of the convention floor, take it on the road, and show a disgruntled and disaffected American public that they are worthy of those blizzards of balloons and confetti...