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...momentum, it's about substance. I think the best substance turns out in the end to be the best politics--that's a view some see as quaint, but I think it's true." Here Gore is executing a version of the Dick Morris game plan, using issues to gild himself and tar his opponent--hence the Democrats' ads attacking Bush's health-care record in Texas for leaving too many poor children without coverage. "Gore's ads make Texas look like it's Belize or Bulgaria or someplace where kids live in huts with no roofs and everything...
...guard a title that was rich before/To gild refined gold, to paint the lily," wrote Shakespeare, "Is wasteful and ridiculous excess." True, but this is a new millennium, and the gilding of Harry Potter seems to have worked. The carefully built-up demand produced long lines of customers and the curious at the many U.S. bookstores open for business at the crack of last Saturday. Some of these settings seemed surreal. At Books of Wonder in lower Manhattan, local TV and print reporters swarmed among the expectant book buyers. "The A.P. has already hit us," said Dave Lambert...
...guard a title that was rich before/ To gild refined gold, to paint the lily," wrote Shakespeare, "is wasteful and ridiculous excess." True, but this is a new millennium, and the gilding of Harry Potter seems to have worked. The carefully built-up demand produced long lines of customers and the curious at the many U.S. bookstores open for business at the crack of Saturday. Some of these settings seemed surreal. At Books of Wonder in lower Manhattan, local TV and print reporters swarmed among the expectant book buyers. "The AP has already hit us," said Dave Lambert...
...easy to forget that a great deal of what we know about the world derives from our exposure to the printed word. Journalists must strive to give us an impression of the world that comports with reality as nearly as possible. They should resist the urge to gild news articles with statements of non-existent, or at least non-apparent, popular consensus...
...rules," says Ken Bullock, an abashed organizer. "The Games are an aphrodisiac. If you want something bad enough, you stretch the boundaries." He points out, however, that the pressure on a bidding city to be hospitable can be intense, and Salt Lake City was hardly the first to gild its welcome mat. "The I.O.C. allowed this sucking up," says Bullock...