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...festival of a feature-length movie that depicts Governor Bush merrymaking with journalists aboard his presidential campaign plane in the fall of 2000 may not get a thumbs-up from the Commander in Chief. "These are my people," says Bush, who is seen wading into the boozy throng's cocktail hour as the press corps whips up margaritas in the back rows of the 757. "It takes an animal to know an animal," Bush proclaims, to the whir of a blender. "And I'm not admitting I'm an animal, with 60 days to go in the campaign...
...wasn't giving up everything. The approved Windsor family pursuits involved horses, hounds and foxes. Margaret preferred theater, nightclubs and long nights entertaining guests at the piano, fitting countless cigarettes into her elegant holder and keeping the royal cocktail shaker in regular motion. She gathered a circle of rich, festive companions, the "Margaret set," and traveled constantly. She discovered Mustique, a Caribbean island that belonged to one of her friends, and took up water-skiing. Try to picture Elizabeth on water skis...
...pianist—playing on a Yamaha with a sound as bright as its polished finish—thumped out a series of chromatic arpeggios that got the audience pumping. But the peak was naturally Frankie’s sharp and tuneful playing that served to spike the cocktail and got the audience dancing. Not letting the pace lag, they moved into the universal funk favorite, Herbie Hancock’s “Chameleon.” Here the other half of the rhythm section came to the fore. The bassist punched out the pentatonic riff in swift staccato...
...that I know whooping cough numbers are up, I'll have to linger over the list of symptoms in that part of the chart to try to project them on to my offspring. The baby + phlegm cocktail is one of the most brutal for mothers. Once stricken, infant nasal passages are so small that any mucus makes their breathing sound like Darth Vader in the final stages of emphysema. You keep wishing: "if it only it could be me who has the cold, instead of her." And before you know it, presto...
...trivia of ordinary lives. Think Bridget Jones's Diary meets reality TV. From Polyester Lester in Alaska premiumpolar.com/polyester) who just started a band and wants to know what you think of his haircut, to Becky in France mybluehouse.com/weblog) who can teach you how to brew a Scotch cocktail called a kilt lifter, bloggers star in their own never-ending soap opera. The result is less intrusive than a webcam but somehow more revealing...