Word: thingness
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...commuter terminal at Boston's Logan International Airport--everything from sweeping, state-run health care to the most modest increments. Gore checked off five options. Then it suddenly occurred to him what he wanted to do: cover children and their families. "Children are the most important thing here," he said. "That's what people want...
...final arbiter of what's good enough, which is why he can create a bottleneck. In November, he was scheduled to give a major foreign-policy address at Tufts University, but as the date drew near, the campaign made less of it. And when Bradley finally delivered the thing, it turned out to be a gauzy disappointment, not what one would have expected from this first-rate foreign-policy mind. The latest retrenchment: probably no economic address before the New Hampshire primary. An adviser says it isn't worth taking the time away from shaking hands in Iowa...
...thing Bradley has always been is outwardly low key, and he's sticking to that. During a strategy session on Dec. 31 at the New Jersey apartment of campaign manager Gina Glantz, the inner circle--including Glantz, campaign chairman Doug Berman, communications director Anita Dunn and press secretary Eric Hauser--was munching bagels and finalizing the all-important January strategy. "We'd been working toward this for months," says someone who was in the room, "and now it was upon us, but there was no palpable sense of tension, no 'this is it' pep talk. It was all very Bill...
...thing that writers tend to comment on is your very "regular guy" looks. Does it strike you as odd that people are so fixated on your appearance...
...Certainly, Wilde blessed them with a number of witticisms, but it is the men who steal the show with their smug expos of upper class British society and the virtue of lies. As John Worthing intones midway through the play, "My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the thing one tells to a nice, sweet refined girl." Later he even concludes that it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth...