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Miller started out well in the preseason. "Democrats and Republicans. Now there's a bunch of 4 and 12 teams," he chortled. But since then it seems like Miller has been pulling his punches. In the season opener Sept. 4 he was silent for most of the game except halftime, when he was eating Skittles during his analysis. In the broadcasts since, Miller has become even more timid, as columnists have pronounced the comedian-as-football announcer experiment a failure...
...first watch takes over at midnight, the scanners are silent...
...said, "If you ask me personally, I'm still for vouchers. But I understand how it is when you are vice-president." The next day, when a crowd of teacher's union members at the Democratic convention began to get testy about vouchers: "If you want me to stay silent on the issue, vote Gore/Lieberman in September." Integrity? Nobody ever said politicians were honorable. Joe Lieberman used to be the exception. Not anymore. The voters should see the election as it is--a contest between liberal and conservative, not between "integrity" and "compassion...
...American?" A woman with sable hair smoothed back from her pointed, little face peered at me accusingly from above. Somewhat taken aback by her piercing eyes and aggressive stance, I remained silent, pressed against the back of my plastic chair. As if reaching an irrevocable decision, she sighed and said again, "You are an American...
Which is not to say Ware is Jimmy Corrigan. A shy, potato-shaped Untermensch, Corrigan is the 36-year-old correlative (neither smart nor a kid) to comic child-men like Charlie Brown. He works silent hours in a cubicle. He calls his domineering mother every day. Women, not coincidentally, terrify him. One dreary Thanksgiving week, his long-lost father sends him a plane ticket to visit him in Michigan. During the tragicomic, disastrous get-together, Jimmy meets his adopted black sister Amy and his ancient grandfather (also named Jimmy), whose own 1890s Chicago childhood unfolds in a beautiful...