Word: armchair
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Armchair cardiologists were everywhere last week. After Dick Cheney's second unplanned trip to the hospital in four months, the tabloids were full of anonymous quotations from "worried pals" who thought Cheney should cut back on his work load. Talk-show hosts repeated their physicians' advice to take it easy. Political types made book on who would replace Cheney if he bows out before George W. Bush runs for re-election, and syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington wondered if the Vice President was on some kind of "suicide mission...
...push to add another rung of American popularity. The sport had already grown far beyond its original blue-collar southern fan base; the NASCAR traveling show already packed 200,000-seat arenas with ease wherever it went. Now, with the Fox deal, it was bidding for the Sunday-armchair cultural prominence of NFL football, all the while hoping that the infusion of money, marketing and the scrutiny that goes with them would never cause its die-hards to wonder what had become of the sport they loved...
Reclining in his armchair while listening to Bach, Heywood said he will then "have a few quiet days off to enjoy the holiday...
...idea that the raw video would truly educate the viewing public more than legal analysts do seems a bit bogus, what with all this abstruse section 2 and section 5 and section 15 business. More likely, we laymen will focus on who gets off the best zingers - our armchair analysis determined by our pre-existing beliefs - then let Rush or Chris Matthews spin it for us as usual. On the other hand, if anyone was grandstanding for the benefit of the Nielsen families here, as courtroom-camera critics maintain, they were doing a lousy job of it. (With the possible...
...watch Clinton in front of the helicopter that Nixon made famous, talking serenely about democracy in a warm Beltway breeze, was to remember that the true greatness of an edge-of-one's-armchair election night was that it wasn't a crisis at all. The Wednesday morning sun did not rise on a Gore victory, as the vice president had envisioned aloud; nor did it rise on a Bush one. But rise it did, on quiet streets and expectant water coolers and "breaking news" touts that wouldn't go away...