Word: gore
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...creative field. Hence the architect Frank Gehry and the female-rocker-as-open-wound-feminist Courtney Love. And there is proximity to power, at least when it is enjoyed by people with ideas and issues they know how to push. It's largely by this means that Al Gore, who is supposed to be in a no-influence job, isn't. (Sorry, Bill--you're merely powerful...
Harvard is often seen as the training ground for the future leaders of the country: a top echelon of alumni across a broad spectrum of society from Vice President Al Gore '69 to former Cambridge mayor Kenneth E. Reeves...
...upper echelons of the federal government consist of dozens of men and women who were drafted from Harvard's faculty and administration, including Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich, Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers and even Vice President (and former overseer) Al Gore...
...week Americans learned how fast and how far Bill Clinton would go to get re-elected did not end with his aggressive flanking maneuver on welfare reform or a timely reminder of his opposition to gay marriage. Instead it ended with the Clinton-Gore campaign buying $1.2 million worth of ads that suggested to viewers that the only thing Bob Dole had done lately was "quit." And it climaxed with a bitter exchange over abortion, in which charges and countercharges over piety and principle flew back and forth with a startling ferocity. It became the week to talk about values...
...almost expired with helpless laughter after reading Charlton Heston's angry letter denying Gore Vidal's comments [LETTERS, May 13] that the subtext of the relationship of characters played by Heston and Stephen Boyd in the film Ben-Hur was a homosexual one. Without meaning to, of course, Heston utterly confirms Vidal's assertion that director William Wyler told Vidal that Heston would "fall apart" if he knew about the homosexual subtext they conspired to feed Boyd behind Heston's back. All this behind-the-camera intrigue is rendered moot, however, if you just watch the scene...