Word: geysering
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...body wracked by spasms. In the pantheon of YouTube phenomena, Michael J. Fox's Missouri Senate ad is no Evolution of Dance or lonelygirl15. Unlike the online videos that usually catch on, it has no white rappers or cool choreographed treadmill routines; no one lip-synchs or makes a geyser with Diet Coke and Mentos. Yet this short TV spot may have done more than any other to show YouTube's potential as a political force. In the ad, Fox, a longtime Parkinson's disease sufferer, endorsed Democratic Senate hopeful Claire McCaskill and criticized her opponent, Senator Jim Talent...
...that another slip of the mouth, an impromptu word geyser for which Maines would soon have to issue a diplomatically worded clarification? Not hardly. With exquisitely brisk timing, she turns to the documentary camera and, as if exasperated with the ignorance of some hayseed who happens to be the Chief Executive, says, "You?re a dumb...
...shrugs. "And that's fine. Better to come off as smarter and more disciplined than I actually am." She waits a beat and then adds with a delighted laugh, "Not that I'm interested in debunking the myth!" Yet everybody who's worked with her turns into a geyser of mush about how giving and life-affirming she is. So perhaps the difficult rep arises not from who she is but whom she plays these days. Her characters went from frail to ferocious. In the first 15 of her 44 films, those made before she turned 40, Streep (who turns...
...African and African American Studies. Christopher S. Jencks is Wiener professor of social policy. Jane J. Mansbridge is Adams professor of political leadership and democratic values. Nancy L. Rosenblum is clark professor of ethics in politics and government and chair of the Government Department, and William Julius Wilson is Geyser University professor...
...reporter saw one of the air tubes entering the second-floor window of African and African American Studies Department Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s office and another in the window of Geyser University Professor William Julius Wilson’s second-floor office. Nothing in those offices appeared damaged, however...