Word: smalling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...moments later, Sade slips into a small dressing room. She politely asks the reporter who is with her for permission to light a cigarette and then proceeds to chain-smoke for the duration of the interview. She smiles readily and laughs often, but something soft and vulnerable in her seems to clench reflexively - like a baby's fist around an adult's finger - when personal questions are raised. She exhales anxious gray smoke. She's not the interview type...
Gore is famous for his Halloween parties, has always appeared in costume. And thus it has been in this race--a cannibal in one debate, a Quaker in the next--and so voters say they don't quite know what to believe about him. He says he wants small, smarter government, but he talks about programs and legislation as lovingly as he does his grandson...
...sleazy or desperate. Certainly, misleading negative ads do a disservice; so do misleading positive ads. But ad watchdog Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, says this year's attacks have been, comparatively, a model of accuracy. "There have been some small inaccuracies on each side, and some mid-level distortions," she says, "but the press has been fairly vigilant about going after them, and then the campaign gets it changed...
...When the Portland station broke the story at 7 p.m. on Thursday, it sparked a media frenzy. "We're a small operation, and every media outlet in the country was calling here," says WPXT-TV news director Kevin Kelly. As the Bush campaign shifted into damage-control overdrive - contacting Bridges and persuading him to talk to the press - things were only getting worse. Wayne Slater, a Dallas Morning News reporter traveling with the Bush campaign, said that two years ago, he had asked Bush if he had been arrested during the relevant time period and that Bush had denied...
...Connolly - a well-known gadfly who gave interviews last week wearing a fishing cap and seated in front of a human skeleton he keeps in his office - says he learned about Bush's DUI through a round of old-fashioned small-town gossip. According to Connolly, an elderly man seeing his chiropractor had mentioned that he was in a courtroom on a DUI charge 24 years ago, and that Bush had been there too. The chiropractor, realizing the significance of that news, called a Democratic public official in Portland. And that official - whom Connolly won't name - told Connolly...