Word: weirdness
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...London to tourists. His wry sense of humor makes him a staff favorite (a policy briefing he was asked to give at the Republican National Convention--to Bo Derek--has been a source of jokes ever since). Bush likes to call his policy director "Yosh," and "just loves the weird connection" of the brainy and the offbeat sides of Bolten's personality, says Karl Rove, the campaign's chief strategist...
...points. But Gore brilliantly used Los Angeles (the family, Karenna's sweet speech, bouncy Tipper, and above all The Kiss) to neutralize the Something's-Wrong-With-Gore problem. W.'s loose Texas normality and gentleman's C in gravitas is no longer sufficient. Gore isn't prohibitively weird anymore to independents, but seems, on the contrary, to be likeable, presentable, acceptable. Los Angeles all but destroyed Bush's atmospheric advantage...
...have ushered in another style that's definitely less stylish: reach out and crush someone. Why mess around with technique when you can grab a guy and hurl him to the floor? "The Europeans tend to be physically strong, pulling you in and crunching you. Grabbing your belt in weird places," Pedro explains...
...know something weird is going on in the afterlife when the dead get their own talk show. But there they are, twice a day, on Sci-Fi's new Crossing Over with John Edward, using the host, a regular-Joe medium, to greet, reminisce with and bust the chops of loved ones in the studio audience. Nor do the dead walk only on basic cable. On series as disparate as Providence, Ally McBeal, Soul Food and The X-Files, apparitions of departed loved ones offer advice and solace. On the WB's Dead Last, scheduled for next year, a rock...
...rule would be: If you've got to kiss in public, kiss babies. Still, better your wife than an intern. But it's too late. The Gores belong to the first generation raised on television, which is also the first generation exposed routinely to pornography. They share the weird and unreliable assumption - almost universal now - that for something to be genuine, it must be shown. And if it is shown, it is credible. It is real. I grew up learning to make the opposite assumption: My deepest instinct tells me that if something is paraded in public, then it must...