Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...month. That amount was reduced to $5,000 only when campaign manager DONNA BRAZILE found out about it. "Some of the people who were most concerned were those who were working hardest for the campaign," says a White House official, who was drafted by the campaign to call around and soothe injured feelings...
They look aghast at that suggestion. They tell me that the analysis and the surveys and the focus groups have become the most important part of the process. In fact, they're thinking that next time around we may be able to skip the voting altogether...
...series of recurring visions since sometime around the Iowa straw poll. Men who are wearing suits and carrying loose-leaf folders put me in a plain room with a large mirror that I somehow know is one-way glass. They tell me I'm a focus group, all by myself. They assure me that I'll be paid $50 for my cooperation and be provided with a box lunch, choice of chicken-salad sandwich or smoked-turkey-and-arugula wrap. I should be aware, they say, that my lunch choice, coordinated with my party registration and weighted...
...happens, I actually have an opinion on Al Gore's new wardrobe. I disapprove. It's not just that he now looks like those guys who hang around the bar in the sort of New York City restaurant I try to avoid. It's that somebody who thinks he can run the country oughtn't to let other people tell him how to dress. I'm pretty close to believing that a candidate who wants my vote has to campaign in his own clothes...
...Wants To Be A Millionaire? originated in Britain. Now that it's a big enough hit to spawn clones like Fox's Greed, will other networks import game shows? Notebook took a spin around the world to see what gems are left (and who should pick them...