Word: bug
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Stabenow, 50, positively glows charisma. Abraham, by comparison, can look a bit bug-eyed and pudgy. He often appears uncomfortable on the campaign trail. His strategist, Mike Murphy, the man who guided John McCain's presidential campaign, calls Abraham, 48, "made for radio." Murphy doesn't show the candidate's face much...
...Baker House last night, the young people in the program--some of whom will participate as part of their probation--mingled with the likes of Gates, Appiah, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, and Police Commissioner Paul Evans, over bug juice and catered hors d'oeuvres...
...blacks who had to play in them. But there are shades of culpability. Astaire, donning blackface for his Bojangles of Harlem number, probably thought (from ignorance, not malice) that he was paying sincere tribute to the great dancer Bill Robinson. As for Mantan Moreland, the black comic whose bug-eyed mugging in Charlie Chan films earns Lee's particular ire, he also was the star of films made for, and presumably appreciated by, the black audience. Perhaps we all have 20/20 vision of the past; it's the present that blurs. Today most whites are ashamed of the degrading racist...
...wife and two boys, for whom he says he wants to write songs about hope. Well, that's fine, but how does the music sound? With the rough edges rubbed out in production, what's left are a few standout pop tracks. "Church on Sunday" and "Castaway" won't bug your parents and they don't break any new ground on a broad musical scope, but they're still catchy as hell. And they're a step forward for the band. Rather than the tired rallying cry of sellout, it's probably more reasonable-and more accurate-to assume that...
...Although he's out of the starting picture for now, if the injury bug continues to bite the Crimson, we could once again see Black back in contention...