Word: bernard
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Last night in Danville, Ky., former Secretary of Defense Richard D. Cheney and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) sat at a table with Bernard Shaw and provided a comprehensive overview of the campaign issues. The format--the same that will be used for the presidential debate Tuesday--was a chance for the candidates to explain their tickets' positions without resorting to partisan attacks...
...knowledge in the two vice-presidential candidates, who were forthright and energetic in their responses. The gravitas factor was surely in play, as both men showed their solid support for their candidate and his positions. The amount of new material covered was minimal--but this was the fault of Bernard Shaw, who did not take advantage of the opportunity to grill the vice-presidential candidates on issues specific to them, like Lieberman's Senate race and Cheney's ties to the American oil industry. Many of the questions were similar to the ones asked on Tuesday, some eliciting the same...
...Ushered from issue to issue by Bernard Shaw, they covered all of them, almost. (Has there been some negotiated pact in these debates not to talk about guns?) As in Tuesday's faceoff, the core of this debate was the surplus and how to spend it - with so many policy roads leading back to it, both campaigns seem content to focus voter attention on this choice. Thursday was the annotated version. Though the totings-up of the two sides seem destined never to jibe, Cheney and Lieberman poked at each other's math dutifully but briefly. Never mind the numbers...
...Cheney needed another handicap, the relatively informal format of tonight's meeting - which will be held around a table, moderated by CNN's Bernard Shaw - could prove problematic. Cheney?s formal manner is better suited to more traditional debate protocol. If Lieberman can capitalize on his trademark humor early in the exchange, it's hard to imagine Cheney mustering the verbal energy to claim momentum...
...Arles section, van Gogh's tragic life at last truly emerges in full force. Fascinated by the idea of an artist colony, van Gogh begged Gauguin and Bernard to join him in Arles. The three exchanged portraits. Yet the MFA exhibit only shows the self-portrait van Gogh sent to Gauguin, which portrays him as a thinking man, deeply committed to art, in vibrant, unrealistic colors suggesting a remove from reality. If the curators had borrowed van Gogh's portraits of Gauguin and Bernard from Amsterdam, a much clearer reflection of van Gogh's insecurities and hopes might have emerged...