Word: decentering
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...screens of dyed-in-the-wool value managers. The tech tortured can seek solace among energy services, banks and insurers, consumer staples and health care. Stay diversified and somewhat conservative. An all-purpose growth-and-income fund might be just the thing. Bonds are also a decent place to hide while the market is seeing a dark cloud behind every silver lining...
Granting that the stage bio is among the most debased of theatrical forms (a decent impersonation, a little library research and--presto!--you've got a play), Bankhead offers unusually rich material. The masochistic anecdotes just keep on coming. In Tallulah we learn that the star once fired a young Marlon Brando from her play The Eagle Has Two Heads because she couldn't stand him "yawning and pawing his privates during my speeches." In Tallulah Hallelujah! we find out that she had gonorrhea, wanted the Bette Davis part in Jezebel and turned down the role of Blanche...
Gore should disconnect himself completely from power for a couple of years - that power that addles his judgment and scrambles his more decent instruments. He should move far from Washington (not to Tennessee) and find a job among real people. He should take a vow of political silence. He should, for two years, listen to people, and learn to walk like a normal human being. He should school himself in a sort of Japanese self-effacement, learning to describe his achievements as "worthless" or "miserable...
...been in vain; judges farther down the food chain had had their fairness challenged, even as they ruled for the Democrats one day, the Republicans the next. Maybe the nation's highest court would be able to guide us home. "The Supreme Court is the only decent way out," said a Democrat who has worked for three presidents in as many decades. "That would at least give the next president some legitimacy...
...story will be one of lost opportunities. His political values, except when he was in trouble, were good ones. They were humane; they were decent. He promised to give us a government that looked like America, and he did that. But around him, it was just a group of white guys. So when it got down to the nitty-gritty, the people in the room did not look like America; they looked like the Hoover Administration...