Word: warms
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Until the spinners' entrance, the press room was pretty quiet; attention to the debate simulcast was swayed periodically by the arrival of new propaganda from red-T-shirt clad Gore-Lieberman volunteers. These people are unbelievable; the copies were still warm as they piled up on our desk. The Bush-Cheney entourage were a bit slower on the uptake - it took them a good 45 minutes to get warmed up. But once they got started, they produced their "issue clarification" packets with startling speed, maneuvering around the press desks in their tailored suits and Ralph Lauren dress shirts...
...were there any wounds opened? Maybe. Bush, in the middle of unrewarding digression into matters Balkan, started talking in rather warm terms about the Russians and their willingness to help pry Slobodan Milosevic out of the president's chair. Gore reminded Bush that the Russians haven't been much help in that regard. Bush: "Obviously we wouldn't ask the Russians if they didn't agree with our answer, Mr. Vice President," Gore: "But they don't." Was it Gerald Ford's liberation of Poland? Hardly. But in the debate's one foray into foreign-policy specifics, Bush sounded like...
...that week. The "Today Show" and other countries' Today Shows set up by the Opera House to catch sunrises on the harbor and sunsets behind the bridge. Overhead, Qantas jets all in a row descended toward the airport at Botany Bay. Restaurants and hotels filled, athletes sprouted in multicolored warm-up suits, photo-op spots in the botanical garden drew queues. Gowings started moving Akubras briskly, and as the Opening Ceremonies got nearer and nearer, the Aussies perked up noticeably. That sunny phrase "no worries" - a weird double-negative promise against doomfulness, when you think about it - was heard again...
...stories, and a Reaganesque ease that threatened to make Gore look unlikable. So Gore started with a gambit his daughter Karenna thought of: "I'd like to start by offering you a deal, Jack. If you won't use any football stories, I won't tell any of my warm and humorous stories about chlorofluorocarbon abatement." In one stroke, Gore got in a semi-funny self-deprecating wonk joke and got Kemp off his game. Gore spends the rest of the debate picking at differences between Kemp and Dole (watch for this one from George W. Tuesday), unprepared Kemp wilts...
...Strings Attached." My mouth fell open, my feet started to dance and I began to reconsider my marriage proposal from Kevin Richardson. (Especially when he was off getting married to someone else that very week! The nerve!) In the ocean of light-sticks amidst the dark and warm summer night, I thought "Yeah, they're not the Backstreet Boys, but that Justin Timberlake can sure shake his booty...