Word: endless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brooded for endless hours about his loss to Clinton. But he has not found a complete answer. "I couldn't get through," he declares. "I'd say, . 'Good news, the economy is recovering,' and there would be all these people saying 'Bush is out of touch.' I couldn't jump over the hurdle." Was it his words, his body language, his patrician presence -- what? "I don't know, I don't know," he replies, frustration still breaking over his face...
...wound" of his defeat is rarely glimpsed these days. He moves too fast. He has been to England, Sweden, China, Hong Kong, Taipei, Thailand, Italy, Spain, Kuwait, Mexico -- some of them twice -- and endless American cities. Once or twice each week he is airborne, generally in commercial planes. He earns between $70,000 and $100,000 per speech. He also gives a lot of free pep talks at fund raisers for friends...
...First Lady, she struggled gamely through White House dinners and the endless health-care meetings, "but I'm not sure anything is happening," an official admitted. "She's not running them. She's not talking, and she just sort of sits there." Friends privately acknowledged that the attacks were taking a toll. "She is too proud to call for support," said Senator Jay Rockefeller, who has worked at her side on health care for the past year. "And you will not catch a muscle of her jaw moving, but if I were her I would be seething over Whitewater." Hillary...
Thankfully, we get some diversion from this seemingly endless back-and-forth; however, it takes the form of a completely confusing kidnapping crisis, culminating in a fairly dramatic scene in which Doug finally gets to shoot a gun. Although this part of the plot has more action than the beginning of the film, it is so unbelievable and so hard to follow that the screenwriter would have done better to stick to the entertaining secret-service-meets-old-lady premise of this one-gag movie...
Filene's Basement, for the uninitiated, is literally in the basement of a Filene's. Filled with endless racks of cloths (ties, socks, underwear, suits, scarves, hats, shoes, pants...the list never ends), the Basement is a refuge for clothes that were overstocked in Filene's proper. All clothes in the Basement are marked down progressively according to how long they've been downstairs, and when Armani vests start going for seventy-five percent off, things really get cooking...