Word: elixir
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...about as reliable a predictive tool as newspaper horoscopes. In 1960 neither Kennedy nor Nixon hinted at the looming U.S. involvement in Vietnam. In four debates, they fielded only two questions on civil rights. In 1980 Ronald Reagan got off scot-free when he confidently forecast that his economic elixir of tax cuts and defense hikes would miraculously produce "a balanced budget by 1983, if not earlier." At least in 1988 Ann Compton of ABC deserved credit for pressing George Bush: "Isn't the phrase 'no new taxes' misleading the voters?" With mangled syntax, Bush responded lamely, "No because that...
...elixir is exercise. "It is euphoric; it releases me," he claims. "I run two miles three times a week at about 9 1/2 minutes a mile. I play tennis, golf and horseshoes. Keeps you human, keeps you going. Take fishing. It is not competitive, but it is totally relaxing. I concentrate on where the cast is going. I can get my mind free of other things...
...change operations, domestic discord and even the Deity: "Well God can turn the world around/ And he can push it in the dirt/ And he can tear it all apart/ He don't care who'all gets hurt/ Oh, something ain't right." The mix is intoxicating -- a dark elixir candy-coated with buoyant melodies and lyrics that smile even as they bite. At once scathing and funny, swinging and strange, UH-OH is Little Creatures with dancing feet...
...COMEBACK KID. If 1992 were a normal political year, the auguries would make Clinton the favorite. He alone has that magic elixir called money in the bank -- $2 million after New Hampshire with $1 million more in federal matching funds on the way. Small wonder that Clinton fund raiser Bob Farmer proclaims, "This will be all over by Illinois," one of the two big Rust Belt primaries (Michigan is the other) that will be held on March 17. Much of the upcoming political terrain is made to order for Clinton, the lone Southerner in the race and the contender...
...suspect that much of the insensitivity to the rights of Adamsians in their aristo-artistic elitism springs from a fundamental ignorance of the primacy of the meal in Adamsian culture. There is the coffee, elixir of caffeinated conversation and, by extension, of life. There is the dark wood, and the fragmentation expressed in the scrawligraphy on exhibition on the lee side of Tommy's Lunch...