Word: flashings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this political race needs is more emotion. With the airbrushed, carefully coiffed Edwards on one side and the spectacularly bland Obama on the other, it was a breath of fresh air to see the Iron Lady—or anybody, for that matter—do something other than flash her pearly whites for CNN. In this era of personality politics, elections have devolved into debutante balls where composure and conformity win the day. The media’s obsession with minutiae like laughs and wardrobe choices guarantees that even the tiniest misstep will be recorded, documented, and analyzed...
...Clinton's debate performance on Saturday, which the theater critics panned, actually served her well with voters and raised once more whether Democrats are looking for a fighter or a healer. ABC News brought in market researchers who hooked up voters with electrodes to monitor their brain activity. Her flash of anger when the boys ganged up played well with all of them; so did her humor, when she was asked why people don't like her: "Well, that hurts my feelings." But viewers really hated Obama's graceless barb when he told her, "You're likable enough...
...summer abroad in Beijing, I found myself expounding upon “unalienable rights” to one of my Chinese teachers. I remember being surprised at having to explain to her what seemed to me to be such a basic concept—and I realized in a flash that the Declaration of Independence spoke for me. I do in fact personally hold the truths that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, and that among these rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to be, well, self...
...press have to be smarter too. We were wildly stupid in the days before the New Hampshire primary, citing Clinton meltdown after Clinton meltdown - the tears, the flash of anger in the debate - that never really happened. We really need to calm down, become more spin-resistant, even if our sleep-deprived sources tend to overreact to every slip and poll dip in the campaign. If we are lucky, this will be a long and complicated race - which is exactly what this country deserves right now - and we need to watch it with our very best, most patient eyes, just...
...with the funny tax plan, whom no one really understood and only a handful of reporters followed. Sure, he was polling well in Iowa, went the buzz, but that's where all the evangelicals live. He had no real campaign operation to back him up. He was considered a flash in the pan. He was a curiosity. He wasn't going anywhere. Remember Pat Robertson in 1988? It was just a matter of time...