Word: ever
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...York Times's Week in Review gave the cartoon expression of this glum sentiment: Michael Dukakis and George Bush, pint-size brats, sticking their tongues out at each other in infantile fury. The 1988 election is, by general agreement, the dirtiest and dumbest election in recent memory, maybe ever...
...television packaging and American decline in the world has ruined presidential politics and turned it into a dreary and cynical transaction. After eight years of a former actor in the White House, perhaps it is just as well that neither candidate this time behaves remotely like an entertainer. Who ever said that the President of the United States had to be charming...
...Read my lips!" cries Bush. "No . . . new . . . taxes!" Read my lips. George Bush is ever at odds with language, as if he does not regard it as a reliable vehicle of thought. At his worst moments on the stump, his surreal moments, Bush is a sort of amateur terrorist of language, like an eleven-year- old Shi'ite picking up a Kalashnikov assault rifle for the first time and firing off words in wild bursts, blowing out the lamps, sending the relatives diving through the windows. Bush is mostly oblivious to the nuances of language, as if some moral...
...with an ashy-silver half-plate moon in the blue sky, the rally crowd was being warmed up by Texas agriculture commissioner Jim Hightower, a charismatic populist with a talent for comic fulmination. Dan Quayle, said Hightower, is so dumb he "thinks Cheerios are doughnut seeds." And: "If ignorance ever goes to $40 a barrel, I want the drilling rights on George Bush's head...
...University of Chicago, broke the task into smaller pieces and dispatched them over ordinary phone lines to computers at universities and corporations. The results were then compiled by minicomputers at a Digital Equipment lab in Palo Alto, Calif. The success of the ad hoc network, one of the largest ever assembled, raises problems for cryptographers and intelligence agencies, whose code solutions are often based on the prime factors of long, hard-to-solve integers. But it certainly demonstrates the enormous power of small computers linked together by electronic mail. Their answer...