Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ALBUM: ANGEL DUST...
...this new outlook may be responsible for Gore's place on the ticket. Clinton and Gore -- the new gold dust twins of the Democratic Party -- had been eyeing each other warily for years. Only 19 months apart in age (Gore, 44, is the younger), they have been in many ways so similar, so driven, so high-test-scores smart, so blue-suit sincere that it once seemed inevitable that their ambitions for the White House would collide. Consider the dualities: both are new-ideas moderates with a policy wonk's love of the intricacies of complex issues; both boast blue...
...bout to dust some cops...
...once the dust jacket gets it right: What It Takes "does for politicians what Tom Wolfe did for astronauts in The Right Stuff." Left unsaid -- and in this 1,047-page doorstop of an epic only the dust jacket is terse -- was precisely Wolfe's accomplishment in The Right Stuff. Wolfe took an event we all were certain we knew so well that it bored us to tears and convinced us that The Whole Thing Was a Lie. We had so internalized the public relations myths of the original Mercury astronauts that we had missed the real story...
...usual, sweeping up millions of citizens in an emotional crusade that could conceivably propel him all the way to the White House. Despite what may be a temporary leveling off in his popularity, the Texan still outpaces George Bush in the polls and leaves Democrat Bill Clinton in the dust. No other independent candidate in modern American history has mounted a more serious challenge to the two-party Establishment...