Word: raring
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...acreage. His arm shoots out to point at the different kinds of oaks, the elm and the hackberry. There's an overwhelming brownness as you look out over large portions of his land, which have the texture of a worn brush. He stops the truck to show us a rare cottonwood and make sure we can all see the white-tailed deer hiding in the trees. "Motts are what they call those groupings of oaks," notes Bush. He catalogs every stream crossing, every canyon and the precise number of cows, bulls and calves that he lets graze on his land...
...belief that politicians are liars is so widely cherished that it is almost part of America's civic religion, along with that stuff about being created equal. But outright whoppers by politicians are fairly rare. Not every year produces a classic like President Clinton's "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." The lie most discussed in 2000 was Al Gore's alleged claim that he invented the Internet, which is an exaggeration of what he really said and is hardly a central issue anyway...
...have enough family time as it is. On those rare occasions when we sit down together to watch Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, we need everyone huddled around the same electronic hearth, not slotted into lonely outposts upstairs, watching God knows what...
Anderson plays Lily, handsomely, as a rare creature trapped under glass. The air thins; her breath shortens. And the viewer watches, appreciative of her plight, all but moved. The film is under glass as well. Davies, whose Distant Voices, Still Lives is a muted masterpiece, here is closer to Masterpiece Theatre, tastefully observing the glamour of social ruin...
...Aubry Brut 1995 Le Nombre d'Or. Fromenteau, arbanne and petit meslier; $40. Orange, lemon, grapefruit, pear and peach, plus exotic perfumes from the rare grapes...