Word: wing
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...ball, which fortunately had enough momentum to carry it over the Big Green frontcourt players, was gathered in by Prasee-Freeman on the left wing. With the clock running below 10 seconds, Prasse-Freeman had the presence of mind to look for Clemente and threw a cross-court pass to the senior marksman...
...Rockwell?). TV had other fantasy-reality conflicts: Leonardo DiCaprio played an ABC journalist with Bill Clinton; CBS's Early Show digitized its logo onto video of Manhattan; and then there was election night. At the Emmys, reality lost out. There's no award for nonscripted shows, and The West Wing's airbrushed depictions of our better angels beat the The Sopranos' gritty realism. Sometimes fantasy still bites...
...Year's before we have a President-elect. But if George W. Bush wins, the White House will look more Wild West than West Wing. Just witness how the Bushes decked the halls of the Governor's Mansion in Austin. With spurs in the garland and a cowboy Santa, Dubya's decor is a far cry from the "Holiday Reflections" theme on Pennsylvania Avenue. Wonder if next year's White House Santa will have to giddyap...
...angst is monumental. But novelist Michel Houellebecq just might become your newest hero. Although Americans are just beginning the struggle to pronounce his phonetics-defying name ("Wellbeck"), the French have been engaged for the last two years in an intense debate over the significance of his scandalously right-wing and pornographic weltenshaung. But if you haven't heard of Houellebecq, never fear; in the course of the next year, you will probably be unable to avoid him. To many French, he has already been christened the new Camus, a potential leading figure for a whole new generation of writers...
...together. That's how they're seeing the first step. The second step would be to mix the desire of Barak to achieve a settlement with the Palestinians before February, when he faces a tough reelection battle, together with Arafat's fear of having to deal with a right-wing government. Mixing these desires and fears together, some Americans and Europeans feel, may lead to some kind of framework agreement...