Word: clues
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...brand. You just had no idea what the brand did. ("ProtoLink: the Enterprise Solution for Internet Strategy. Because the future is where decisions will be made.") And throughout the year there were more and more of those ads for prescription drugs that didn't supply the smallest clue to what disease the miracle drug was supposed to cure. ("Sue, have you tried Protozip? It sure worked for me!" "No, Donna, I haven't, but I'm going to call my doctor today and ask for Protozip." Announcer: "Protozip should not be used by pregnant women or anyone who wears button...
...about creative legal arguments," he said at one point. "It's not about creative economic arguments. It is about common sense. It is about facts, and it is about what the real world demonstrates." No matter how well you know Boies, these words, the phrasing, the syntax, give no clue to the setting where he is speaking. In court and out, he speaks a brand of English so simple and direct that he sounds like the high school teacher he once thought he would become. It's the way Boies speaks when addressing a judge, the way he speaks...
...what signs can we divine for the next four years? Well, the first clue may come in George W.?s like-father, like-son name. The Bushs are dynastically-minded. And as liberals bow to the ?60s and ?70s as their decades of cultural reference, the Bush reference points were the 1980s: Ronald Reagan and George Sr. at the helm. The end of all that hippy-dippy nonsense. A spirit of purpose and moral fiber. Yes there was that troublesome business of the national debt quadrupling, unemployment soaring and the Iran-Contra scandal. But some people will always nit-pick...
...that his father chose as a profitable base in the ?50s and ?60s. Except for his sojourns at Yale and northeastern prep schools, the George W. taste is drawn from unapologetic Texan sensibilities. There?s a certain swagger. Think Connecticut meets ?Dallas? meets ?Dynasty? and you?ll have a clue what to expect...
After the Clintons? embrace of Hollywood, movies are in for a rougher time. Bill Clinton may have endorsed such gritty films as ?Sling Blade? and ?Dead Man Walking,? but Bush has different tastes. A clue? His favorite book and TV movie of all time is ?Lonesome Dove.? Consequently we will no longer see White House events attended by a procession of faces - Streisand, Spielberg, Cruise and Hanks - familiar from ?Entertainment Tonight...