Word: flawless
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Politicians aren't supposed to like journalists. We tend to be speed bumps in their otherwise smooth road to being thought of as flawless human beings. Most politicians, like Gore, deal with this by treating each article as a new transaction, a bloodless negotiation between professionals that leaves nothing personal behind. Bush, however, treats each story like a new credit or debit in his family ledger. It's all personal, especially since the 1988 presidential campaign, when Junior acted as the loyalty enforcer. The Bushes fed hot dogs and lemonade to the reporters at Kennebunkport, even took a special...
...month ago had deserted him, thanks largely to female voters carpooling home to the Democrats. Even Bush couldn't defy the rules of courtship forever: in times of peace and prosperity, it takes more than a sunny disposition to persuade voters to dump their dates. Bush's flawless postprimary campaign obscured the fact that by any historical measure, he never should have been that far ahead in the first place. While Gore did help himself with a buoyant convention and a focused message, he is also helped as people begin to pay more attention and discover the Veep...
Politicians aren't supposed to like journalists. We tend to be speed bumps in their otherwise smooth road to being thought of as flawless human beings. Most politicians, like Gore, deal with this by treating each article as a new transaction, a bloodless negotiation between professionals that leaves nothing personal behind. Bush, however, treats each story like a new credit or debit in his family ledger. It's all personal, especially since the 1988 presidential campaign, when Junior acted as the loyalty enforcer. The Bushes fed hot dogs and lemonade to the reporters at Kennebunkport, even took a special...
...grown up and on my own, I watch the kids on my Manhattan street trot off to their first days of school, clad in their still-flawless little khakis and colorful shirts. I gaze longingly at their brand-new Elmo backpacks, until their parents catch me staring and shoot me a dirty look, hooking a protective arm around their offspring and hurrying them along a bit faster...
...primary job: thinking about us. In the best seller Life on the Other Side by TV psychic Sylvia Browne (a talk-show and pay-per-view fixture), spirits monitor the living from an afterworld where there are no clocks, it's always 78[degrees] and clear, and there are flawless versions of the Pyramids and the Taj Mahal. (That's right--heaven is the Vegas strip.) On Ways a father's ghost saves his son from drowning. On Edward's show the departed promise to appear at birthday parties and family reunions; one even asks a relative...