Word: stocking
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...stand by to brush on a fresh coat of white paint for a fresh President and his family, come Jan. 20, 2001. On that afternoon, as the Inauguration parade winds down Pennsylvania Avenue, 120 men and women will move the Clintons out and the new First Family in, lock stock and canary if there is one. And the old mansion will be aglow in the winter light and ready to write a new chapter, with its 132 rooms cleaned and polished, its tennis court, jogging track, putting green, basketball hoop, swimming pool, theater, bowling alley and weight room...
...Dallas Morning News is a craggy, lanky Texan who wears Wranglers and cowboy boots and patterned shirts with open necks. With the help of a colleague, Attlesey had come up with a question for Bush about his possible past drug use that would force the Governor to abandon his stock reply: that when he was young and irresponsible, he was young and irresponsible, and he would not catalog his past indiscretions...
...That's a bust-up with problems, not the least being that it will take a numbing two years to get done. But Ma Bell's latest split makes the subject topical, especially with WorldCom's having just announced a split as well. I'm not talking about letter stocks either. Those are bust-ups in name only. Management of companies with a tracking stock still answer to the parent's boss. What's the point...
What makes this track particularly compelling is that it departs from the usual stock-in-trade. Though Jones is one of the most soulful singers on the planet, on most of his songs there is always a lingering feeling he is sharing an in-joke with the listener - that although he sounds as if he's lived every painful moment of every stanza, he really doesn't mean it. It's an impression brought home in concert, where there is no torture, just a vague awkwardness, as he sings his tortured tunes (indeed, he often jokes on stage about "heart...
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