Word: shadowed
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...human being and a person." (With those words, he did.) Then Dick Cheney, who was President Bush's Defense Secretary and is candidate Bush's running mate, sidled up to the lectern in Philadelphia and said, "Mr. Gore will try to separate himself from his leader's shadow, but somehow we will never see one without thinking of the other." It was hard to see Cheney without thinking of a gray sheriff from some late-period Clint Eastwood western, riding out of retirement to drive off the rascals who'd plundered his town. With a soft voice and a rusty...
...same. I may go out to a movie, to a restaurant, bars; the only difference is there are consequences for my doing it. But you can do the same things like anybody else. And that's what people don't quite understand. Do you have to live in a shadow or in disguises? No. You just be yourself...
...since he named Lieberman as his running mate, making jokes at events, even straying from the script on occasion. The vice president is only too aware that this is his big moment; he's poised to make an uncharacteristically aggressive move toward independence. It's a heck of big shadow that's overwhelmed him these last eight years, and it will take an act of unprecedented strength to escape...
This should be the week of Al Gore's liberation - from many things. From the good news/bad news of Bill Clinton. From the indentured servitude of the vice presidency. Even, it may be (to dip presumptuously into the candidate's psyche), from his father's impelling shadow. A formal emancipation. But have those servitudes left behind a permanent shadow? In the minds of some voters there is an interesting cloud of doubt about Gore and what he adds...
That was the story in public. In private, nothing much had changed. "My dad," George W. Bush once said, "plays a big role in my life as a shadow government." All through this campaign, the father has been in constant and close communication--"obsessed," Barbara admitted, e-mailing and making calls to his old state operatives and doing events with police officers. An old magician with a telephone, he worked the long lines behind the scenes, making suggestions about what a good idea it would be to do a national Hispanic event, helping with fund raising. You could hear...