Word: canals
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...feeding him gently self-mocking lines for this week, like "I may mangle my words, but I've never mangled the truth." The issue of Gore's complex relationship with the facts dates back to well before this election cycle, long before he'd ever said anything about Love Canal or the Internet. During his first presidential run in 1988, his own staff warned him about hurting his image by stretching the truth, and "how it may continue to suffer if you continue to go out on a limb with remarks that may be impossible to back up." The response...
...your child does a great job, praise her, but remember: she hasn't dug the Suez Canal. Excessive praise is condescending and counterproductive. If she does a lousy job, acknowledge that some work has been done, but go back out and calmly reinstruct. If your child does the kind of job most kids do--my friend Brian says his yard grows noticeably smaller each time his daughter mows it--tell her how much you appreciate the good start that she has made. Your child--like your garden--is a work in progress...
...Internet; he said that in Congress he "took the initiative in creating the Internet," an unfortunate way of saying he sponsored the bill that bankrolled the transformation of a Defense Department computer network into the Internet we know today. Nor did he claim to have discovered the Love Canal toxic-waste crisis; he was misquoted on the subject, but the newspaper corrections didn't get the same play as the original charge. That's not to say Gore doesn't exaggerate; he does. But plenty of other people in his line of work do too. "It is not an unknown...
...never addresses the ethics of union busting. The replacement players don't agonize for a second about taking jobs from players who earned them. And at the end, Hackman elegizes the scabs: "They had been part of something great." Come on: these guys didn't dig the Panama Canal. They helped rich owners satisfy billion-dollar contracts with TV networks...
...writing a villanelle? What's a villanelle again? Two lines that alternate and repeat, then come together at the end and mean something. A villanelle is supposed to be elegiac. What's elegiac again? Concupiscent ducks fly in a crazy syntax over powerboats throbbing in the canal. A mole slinks back to his underworld kennel. Succinct, admirable outcast. I paddle down the stream of unconsciousness. I used to look forward to summer...