Word: grandpa
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...emotional insurance policy, a government bond I can cash out when things get to be too much. People do funny things when they're hurting; some of them drink, some of them cry, some of them just go to bed. The night my grandmother died my grandpa sat alone in his living room and read "Treasure Island" from cover to cover. If it had been me, I'd have been watching "King Kong...
...touches of humor but also echoes of Bush's grandfather, Connecticut sdenator Prescott Bush. When Dubya said of America "to whom much is given much is expected," he could have been talking about himself and his own privileged background. His talk about the nobility of government service was more Grandpa than Reagan...
...been renamed by Bush. His staff members, from the "High Prophet" (Karen Hughes) to "Big Country" (Joe Allbaugh) to "Boy Genius" (Karl Rove), were all tagged years ago. Members of the press covering Bush now answer like so many fighter pilots to handles as varied as "Stretch," "Pancho," "Grandpa" and "Dulce." And in Washington, Bush has already started spraying nicknames at delegations of visiting lawmakers. George Miller, the hulking Democrat from California, is now known as "Big George." Republican Congressman Fred Upton has earned the belittling moniker "Freddy...
...apart, long ago, in a different America, before the flood, and both came over with us into a new millennium, though they were enveloped in fog as we crossed the line. They make me think of Woodie Guthrie's '30s ballad based on "The Grapes of Wrath": "We buried Grandpa Joad on the Oklahoma Road,/ and Grandma on the California side...
HOLY COMIC BOOKS! To appeal to young Catholics, the Vatican has approved a comic book about the life of Pope John Paul II, with emphasis on his soccer-playing, ski-slope-bombing youth in Poland. "He really wasn't a geek!" insists the comic's narrator, Grandpa. Comparisons with other comic-book heroes make us wonder why no one thought of this before...