Word: act
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...rabid band of anti-abortion, pro-prayer protectionists who are fightin' mad over the Republicans' slow-but-insistent move back to the center under George W. Bush. With a Reform party nod, Buchanan gets a brand-new pan-partisan forum for his populism ? in his third go-round, his act is wearing thin with GOP voters ? and a brand-new war chest. (Thanks to Perot's 9 percent showing in 1996, the Reform nominee is guaranteed $12.6 million in federal money, far more than Buchanan has been able to raise this year.) But what does the Reform party...
...lately, Richard Williams, the goofy and irrepressible father of tennis' most powerful sister act, Venus and Serena, has proved a delightful exception to all that. Williams has redefined the figure of the stage parent by being wildly ambitious for his two girls and yet at the same time wildly loving. The history of paternal nonsense has never seen his like. Before the U.S. Open started, he told the press that his daughters would definitely play each other in the finals. (He turned out to be half right.) "It's not that there aren't talented players here," said Williams...
...birth-control pills. That's how Venus came. With Serena, what I'd do with my wife when I'd take her out is make sure that she had her birth-control pills. I'd tell my buddy, 'You know we're from the ghetto, right? You just act like the worst Crip, and take her purse.' And I'd calm her down, and that's how Serena came...
...relished the opportunity more than Steve Klotz, 41, a retirement-home director from Jacobus, Pa., and the father of Swarthmore defensive back Josh Klotz. Steve had witnessed many of the team's recent embarrassments. In 1997, during a 73-to-0 drubbing by Johns Hopkins, the scorekeepers, in an act of mercy, let the clock run through time-outs. After that season, Steve said, "The players told the administration that they were tired of going out and playing games no one cared about." Last year under new coach Peter Alvanos, Swarthmore was competitive in several games. This summer the players...
...Leading sing-alongs of numbers like Let Love Rule and churning out pulsating renditions of such hits as Fly Away, Kravitz deftly blended '70s rock, '70s soul and late-'90s cool. Fans kept standing even during the slow songs. But while the talented Kravitz was victorious, his main opening act, Smash Mouth, mounted a mushy set that mixed pop, punk and ska and created the musical equivalent of the stew of food particles you scoop out of the drain after you've washed the dishes...