Word: gushing
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...candidates lie -- in a technical sense -- every time they read a speech they paid someone else to write, every time they gush over how thrilled they are to be among the real people outside the Beltway, and every time they feign modesty after a particularly effusive introduction. But the voters have become inured to such petty fabrications. The big fibs are the problem -- the read- my-lips whoppers. So here, as a public service, are some rhetorical tricks ; that signal DANGER -- SHARP CURVES AHEAD...
...Every event, in the gauzy gaze of NBC's commentators, is a test of national character or moral courage. Every athlete has a stirring personal story or a dramatic comeback tale or at the very least a recent death in the family. NBC's latest contribution to the patriotic gush is a series of celebratory music videos -- among them, Marc Cohn warbling about swimming champ Pablo Morales, and D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince getting all rapped up in the Dream Team...
Perot knows his reputation for being hypersensitive to criticism -- and last week went out of his way to gush over how much he enjoyed Dana Carvey's impersonation of him on Saturday Night Live. But he also took pains to stop visitors to his 17th-floor office suite before a portrait of himself, commissioned and autographed by former Vietnam prisoners of war, so he could * say, "I don't think the POWS would have given me this if they thought what I had been doing for them was a publicity stunt." Like a salesman whose primary product...
...final credit roll, Gallagher recalls, "we were sitting with our heads down, looking at our feet and just kind of saying, 'It's so cool to be involved with this movie.' " Yet the huzzahs worry Altman a bit -- he remembers that Nashville "got overhyped by the press." And the gush that greeted M *A *S *H and Nashville, he says, was "nothing like the response to this. This is just . . . weird. I've already got more mail than I had total on all the other films I've ever made." Surely he's heard some quibbles, some intelligent criticism...
...would anyone do VES at Harvard? Simply put, everyone, including Moss, agrees that the amazing funds which gush out of the department is probably its biggest asset. This generosity affords students a learn-by-doing experience that many seniors say is unparalleled in typical film schools...