Word: blushful
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...first blush, Glenn Beane didn't appear to be the stuff of which industrialists are made. A painter, sculptor and filmmaker, he had studied art at Syracuse University, then returned to Laconia, where he converted an old farm building into a sculpture studio and bronze foundry. There, during the years Alan spent as an entrepreneur, Glenn created his art and took in the odd commercial job, like casting bronze propellers for boats. "That's how I made money and put wine on the table," he says...
...Certainly there had to be coaching involved here. This debate, for Gore, was more about not doing certain things than doing anything in particular: for starters, he lost the heavy blush that made him look like the Corinthian leather seat from a 1979 Chrysler Cordoba. But the change also seemed to derive from the act of sitting down, literally getting off your pedestal. And here Gore, not Bush as expected, may have benefited more from the format, which may literally have saved him from himself...
...nobody's business. That the lyrics of his favorite song, Puff the Magic Dragon, may contain a hidden metaphor comes as an unwelcome surprise to him. That a suggestion that his affection for his daughters, especially Pam (Teri Polo), may be touched by feelings that would make Oedipus blush could earn you termination with maximum prejudice--as the beta male candidate for her affections, the unfortunately named Greg Focker (Ben Stiller), learns...
...governor did look a bit peaked as the evening wore on - but in all fairness, 10 p.m. on the East Coast is only 9 p.m. in Texas. Gore seemed invigorated by the fight, but that may have had more to do with his overdone pancake makeup and blush than actual feeling...
...anticipation (and not a few visits by the Bud Man), when Rocker finally emerged from under the bleachers to warm up, you would have thought that this crew was going to storm the field and lynch him. There was enough cursing coming from the bleachers to make a sailor blush...