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...paint on it. Bush tends to hold truck with the private sector; Gore is convinced government has its duties and can perform them admirably, if nourished. Gore seems a little more strenuous about the environment, Bush a little more stingy with our national influence abroad. Gore is more apt to try to keep some money out of politics - it doesn't seem to bother Bush, as long as all the power brokers respect each other and the right wheels get greased. Right. Left. Republican. Democrat. They're not evil men, just politicians...
...brilliant comic creation down to her slightest tic, squeak and emotion-punctuating chest thrust. Marcy is really Pointe's most likable character, a good-hearted dim bulb made a nervous wreck by gossip and the stress of looking impossibly good. (A bulimia scene, also cut, was a cruel but apt picture of the flip side of TV's hot-body worship.) Star's using his past for laughs, yes, but not without heart...
...number some suspect will slide even further this year. Gore needs black turnout to be at least in the 50s, and he may have to do much of the work himself, since many blacks live in districts with Congressmen who face no opposition and are thus apt to let their political machines sleep. Such clashes are quadrennial, with blacks typically arguing that white candidates need to pay more attention to their communities. But in a race this tight, too many black no-shows on Election Day could prove costly for Gore...
...lose face; to credit the other team for a better performance is to admit inferiority. The most foolproof tact is to, instead, blame the referee--for a bad call on a particularly key play, for consistently favoring the other team or for simply being, as school kids are apt to whine in gym class, "not fair...
...described as having the face of "a sheep with a secret sorrow." Sociopolitical generalization? This is as close as Wodehouse gets: "Unlike the male codfish, which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons...