Word: camped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often, I've had the experience of finding that a certain group dynamic cannot be recreated out of context: that my FOP group never felt the same at "reunions" as it did in the woods, that the people who'd felt like soulmates at summer camp had less to say to each other when united at a pizza place in October. This doesn't undermine the intensity and reality of those connections in the moment--in a way it makes them and their moment more wonderfully singular--but it does provide a sobering glimpse of the great big truth that...
...that Al Gore is the "underdog," mired in the familiarity and fatigue of the Clinton presidency, the veep wants to engage Bill Bradley in hand-to-hand combat. The Gore camp got on the phone to the newspapers Thursday, telling the Washington Post that Bradley?s days as an "outsider" are numbered, promising to dredge up every compromise and change of heart in the former senator?s 18-year record. (They?re likely to start with Bradley?s recent Iowa flip-flop on ethanol subsidies, which he once called "highway robbery.") Then there?s the debates ?- or at least...
...summers before last summer, I spent the month of July at Camp Miniwanca in Michigan. Back then, I didn't have an angsty bone in my body. I'd sail on Stony Lake, pine away for Becca Cannon and nod along when Miniwanca staff tried to teach the camp's philosophy. The mumbo-jumbo about balancing the mental, physical, social and religious aspects of myself, living a "four fold life," only got between me and lanyard bracelet making. But recently, I've reconsidered. More than ever, I think I could use some mumbo and a pinch of jumbo...
...voting for a new-semester makeover that runs deeper than a Hervé Chapelier handbag and darker jeans. Something drastic. So I've snuck a little Camp Miniwanca into Issue One; FM's back-to-school, in-your-face guide to self-improvement gives a you the gentle kick in the ass you need to supe up your life in four familiar departments. I think Becca Cannon would be proud...
...priority is not internal politics; it is electing Democrats in 2000," said Sanberg, who admits that his personal sympathies lie firmly with the Gore camp. "It's my job to promote the Democratic Party in a fair and equitable...