Word: beards
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...August, and therefore time to bring scholarship, experience, and psychobabble to bear upon the question of why Al Gore has grown a beard...
...Begin with simple explanations: Some men grow a beard because they have the good grace to get sick of their own faces in the mirror. I've done that once or twice. I wanted a vacation from my face. Imagine how sick of your face you would be if, like Gore, you had to see it on every television screen and newspaper every day for years...
...Maybe he does. Or a gentile jockstrap masquerading as a Freudian analyst (and fooling no one). Or Howard Hughes. But the motive for Gore's beard is not ideological. The beard is not a badge - not a party uniform...
...Gray Lady blew his cover. That must be why AL GORE's staff, according to sources, called the New York Times to complain about a photo the paper ran of the elusive former Veep in Valencia, Spain, sporting--surprise!--a patchy beard. Word is, the beard will come off before the former presidential candidate ends his self-imposed exile and returns from Europe. Apparently he intends to become a freedom fighter for the Democratic Party beginning next week. At an "academy" in Nashville, Tenn., he'll train 25 fresh college graduates to be political operatives, the Times reports. Then...
...whose steeple knifes above the rooftops of centuries-old stone houses, and drove him two and a half hours to a prison near Bordeaux. Though his physical appearance had changed dramatically in his years on the lam - he had lost 50 pounds and whacked off his long hair and beard - his fingerprints hadn't. In Philadelphia the long-suffering DiBenedetto received a fax from the Justice Department...