Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...There's a risk here for Gore as well, of course: The more his debating skills and intellectual superiority are hyped in the press, the more performance anxiety is bound to well up when the big night finally arrives. As far as expectations go, Gore is his own worst enemy...
...Elastica's self-titled debut CD topped the British charts with a caustic but catchy blend of late '70s new wave and '90s pop. Front woman Justine Frischmann's romantic relationship with Damon Albarn, the lead singer for the Britpop band Blur, attracted even more attention in the British press. Then Elastica's single Connection became a big hit in the U.S., and the album eventually sold a million copies worldwide...
...GORE We know what you've been up to the past two weeks, George W. Bush. You've been coasting, letting Gore do all the pledging until it's your turn to get some press. Next week you'll flood us with promises...
Take Columbia's Legacy division, which this week sends into the stores a boxed set of yet another remastering of the Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings of Louis Armstrong. The excuse? To help celebrate Louis Armstrong's 100th birthday, July 4, 2000, say the press materials. This is rather odd, since jazz scholars all agree that Armstrong was born Aug. 4, 1901. Odder still, the vaunted remastering is only slightly better than mediocre. So what is the fair-minded critic's response to all this...
...Clinton, ever the man from Hope, prefers to look at how far Nigeria has come instead of how far it has yet to go. "Now at last you have your country back,'' Clinton told the nation, noting that Nigerians are electing their own leaders, tackling corruption, freeing the press and shedding light on human rights violations. "You have beaten such long odds to get this far," he said. "I am certain America will walk with you in the years to come...