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...campaign's goal is to get as many images on as many local stations as possible. Bush looks each interviewer in the eye, as he has been coached by Ailes to do. His aides smile as Bush keeps mentioning "stability." "Dole acted like talking to us was a chore," notes Diane Pertner of WXFL. "But the Vice President was relaxed and obviously very interested...
...second set. It started with an 11-minute rendition of the protest song "They Dance Alone." Then the band launched into Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing," a song which got the band a standing ovation on Saturday Night Live. The inevitable Hendrix-style guitar solo chore went to Jeff Campbell, who seemed to handle the duty tastefully, as he played a tribute to Hendrix rather than a carbon copy...
Until 1985, Robertson, "blessed with the opportunity to shut up when I have nothing to say," was . . . well, counting his blessings. "I wanted to feel like I couldn't wait to make music, rather than regarding it as a chore," he says. "I knew that if I spoke with all my heart, it would be better for everyone." The writing started tentatively at first ("It was like getting used to the water again"), but, after a time, sounds he heard and stories he suddenly had to tell "came into the open. It was a good feeling. Then I was gone...
...will. Critics wrote off these perceptions as nonsense: no large republic anywhere could ever survive, and as a matter of political chemistry, a government might be either central or federal but surely not both. Madison, of course, knew otherwise, yet he sternly reminded Congress it would have an unrelenting chore ahead. "The regulation of these various and interfering interests," he wrote, "forms the principal task of modern legislation...
...removed from one memo, but she failed to delete a listing of the attachments on the memo itself. Then, before she could switch the phony papers with copies of the originals in her own files or get the new "originals" back to the nearby documents room, a more urgent chore arose...