Word: entertainers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...these guys is going to be president. One of them is going to have to shove whatever he can through a very tense and very divided Congress, deal with some very persistent troubles overseas, and entertain the nation while doing it. The country will go about its business in the meantime, and will doubtless come out fine, give or take. Al Gore desperately wants the job but is determined to win or lose on his own merits. George W. Bush can't wait to get started - it looks like a real hoot...
However, Springer said his show provides entertainment for millions of people. That, he added, is important after a long day of work, or for people who have little else to entertain them in their lives...
...venues there is a great selection of appropriately, or maybe inappropriately, chosen themes. Waiting for the start of competitions, audiences hear Robbie Williams inviting "Let Me Entertain You" or Jennifer Lopez's "Waiting for Tonight." As the elfin, prepubescent girl gymnasts march out, Shania Twain raunchily sings "Man, I feel like a woman." At softball and volleyball the loudspeakers welcome teams from the other side of the world with "We've come a long, long way together/Through the hard times and the good", from Fatboy Slim's "Praise...
...action before the start of the main program, the people in the stadium began doing a spirited wave. It was totally spontaneous and unscripted. Millions upon millions had been spent carefully - and brilliantly - choreographing the evening - and the crowd decides to take things in their own hands and entertain themselves with the wave. Forget all the stuffed suits at the IOC, forget all the obnoxious corporate sponsors with their tour guides, forget all the phony, exaggerated drama the TV people promote. The Australians are taking control of the games and are having a lot of fun. It's refreshing...
...didn't get to meet FARC's leader, the canny 72-year-old peasant Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda. While his minions entertain the media, government negotiators, leftist groupies from the U.S. and Europe and such occasional visitors as the president of the New York Stock Exchange, Marulanda prefers to lay low in the jungle, guarded by female guerrillas...