Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...tell you about my opponent's plan. His plan calls for 14 trillion minus 7 in just six years. And no lockbox. Even worse, under my opponent's plan, 81% of all seniors. And the square root of 54 whatsoever. In my view, that is totally inadequate. It's not a good plan. We can do better. I wouldn't even call his plan a plan. I'd call it a fuzzy plan. Or no plan at all, because just six years from now is six years away. The American people are tired...
After his well-photographed chat with Kostunica, Ivanov spent a very private hour with Milosevic. To tell him what? Assurances that no one would haul him to the Hague? We know for sure what Milosevic told him: I may be down, but I'm not out. The wily old manipulator said it again to the Serbs, vowing to lie low only for a while. He would be back, ready to help his party "gain force" and take up a "prominent" role in politics again...
...with Lucy-esque slapstick (she wrestles an exercise machine! She bashes a block of frozen waffles!). It surrounds her with weak characters who merely react to her. It makes TV jokes ("Pretty soon I'll have my own series, and then I might just as well kill myself") that tell us how lucky we are that such a big star is visiting that little box in our humble living rooms...
...Truth in Criticizing Law demands that I tell you what's good about the movie. The cast is mostly fine, especially the kids: Stuart Wells as Billy's effeminate friend (at home he dresses up in women's clothes--just like his dad!); Nicola Blackwell as the teacher's precocious daughter (she has a near sex experience with Billy); Jamie Draven as Billy's tough brother (star quality could be blooming there); and Bell, a comely lad whose unaffected poise carries the film and brings charm to its excesses. It's a victory for Bell to be so natural...
...make it clear from the start that I am not among those who have engaged in such ridicule. My wife has a strong preference for down pillows, and as it happens, she would make an excellent President. After many years of marriage, I am also in a position to tell you she would win the presidential debates in a walk. If my wife had been present at that first debate, it would not have consisted solely of briefing-book regurgitation; you would have heard some zingers...