Word: sing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...little pointless (news flash: Gore's brother-in-law thinks he's great). But from time to time, the real Gore did come through. During All Things Al, some of the speakers were arrayed on one of those groovy multilevel platforms the 5th Dimension once used to sing Up, Up and Away on shows like the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. A former Gore aide named Michela Alioto described the Vice President's management style: "If you had an idea, you'd e-mail it to him, and he'd e-mail his response right back." Now, that's Al Gore...
...second day was capped off in Clinton, Iowa, where again thousands of friends waited late into the night to sing happy birthday to Tipper and present her with a beautiful - and delicious - birthday cake (the sixth one she got on this...
...Gore-Lieberman convention, the liberal lions were let out of their New Democrat cage. It was an indulgence the Republicans hadn't dared risk, but it was one these Democrats couldn't well avoid. Not with star-power politicians like Jesse Jackson, Teddy Kennedy and Bill Bradley ready to sing the praises and the necessity of Al Gore. But somewhere on Gore's way to the left coast, the chronically overshadowed vice president must have wondered if these lions couldn't have left a little more of the roaring...
...rain held off over the weekend. Lien and her fiance went out for dinner with some friends to a restaurant where the waitresses sing as they deliver the food. Xuan ducked work in order to spend time with his soon-to-be wife--his first holiday since 1996. Nhung was onstage in the Long Phung Culture Center, singing the songs of Trinh Cong Son to a rapt audience. And Huy was back in the Hot Club, coaxing another new act, looking for that smile...
...ashes by now." Womack attacks these bruised sentiments in a voice that carries odd echoes: Dolly Parton without the wink and giggle, Alison Krauss after three years of therapy. Womack can play a tune choir-girl straight or give it a twist of bluegrass (which she can not only sing but also singe with wildfire intensity). Each rendition has the clarity of a soul that realizes loss is a form of purification, a scraping away of false ideals and excess emotional baggage...