Word: bashfully
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Earlier this month, a group of students met in Washington to bash George W. Bush, debate the power of multinational corporations and hear a speaker who denounced the Iraq war, the Patriot Act and stricter airport security. A leader of these college kids calls them "the new counterculture," but here's the thing: they aren't liberals. The 185 students were in Washington to attend the 26th annual National Conservative Student Conference...
...Vegas convention put on by the liberal blog Daily Kos, they were joined by three members of Congress, four presidential candidates and at least seven staffers from the office of former Virginia Governor Mark Warner, one of the 2008 hopefuls. Warner spent thousands on a rooftop bash that included chocolate fountains and a sushi bar, and Bill Richardson, the governor of New Mexico and another potential candidate, flattered the bloggers as if they were a bunch of campaign fundraisers about to hand him checks. Meeting with a few dozen of them in a hotel suite, Richardson, wearing jeans...
...Mexico Governor Bill Richardson mentioned the TV show Dallas, then said bloggers might be too young to get his allusion. An exasperated middle-aged attendee yelled, "We're not that young!" Former Virginia Governor Mark Warner seemed most clued in. He kept the speech at his late-night bash short and curried favor with a medium appreciated by all ages: free food...
...next 12 days we will be blithely blogging about the Cannes Film Festival. Many of you know this movie bash in the South of France as the place where, each May, celebrities slowly walk up the 24 red-carpeted steps to the Palais des Festivals, their every mili-move snapped by paparazzi and cheered by thousands of onlookers greedy for a brush with greatness. But what is the history of this place? What are the rules...
...resumed the following year, now in May, now an annual event. (The 1968 edition was aborted midterm, in response to the Paris street revolts.) In its early days Cannes and Venice were the only major film festivals; now every town larger than Podunk has a yearly movie bash. (Note to editor: Please check to make sure Podunk doesn't have a film festival.) Berlin may be more serious, Amsterdam hipper, Sundance more focused, Toronto more congenial. But Cannes, with its 40,000 visitors from around the world, remains the gold standard for movie conclaves...