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When the story broke about the Bush twins' being cited for drinking at a restaurant in Austin, Texas, I hoped it would fade before my deadline. I remember all too well when I was 19, although not as well as I would have if I hadn't gone in for a good deal of underage drinking. More recently, I remember being the parent of a 19-year-old and worrying about her underage drinking. I would have been a lot more concerned, however, had I thought a bunch of outsiders was going to be judging her as a teenager...
...than a combination of the two, assuming Nathan Lane wasn't involved? You can imagine my dismay in discovering that not only does the movie Moulin Rouge contain absolutely no nudity but the characters sing unmusical rock songs like Up Where You Belong and Smells Like Teen Spirit. I hadn't felt this disappointed since learning that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a children's movie...
...that he still believed he might just win. The Tories, though exhausted, still had some of their 'big beasts' - politicians like former Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine and former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke - fronting their campaign and giving it a buzz. Most important, New Labour was a reinvented party that hadn't yet fully revealed itself. Full of zest, it opened the prospect of stimulating change to Britain's tired plitical scene, fuelling the adrenalin of journalists covering the campaign. All this unknown territory was stimulating stuff...
...Labour press bus on the grounds that he was not really a journalist - his TV impressions of Blair are rather cutting - sat in front of me in the coach. Hague kept popping out of Bremner's mouth, his voice and mannerisms so perfect one wondered whether Hague in fact hadn't somehow slipped in beside Bremner. The local press clustered around the comedian at a stop in a Portsmouth shopping precinct, where Hague spoke to local shoppers. It was Bremner they wanted for quotes while passerbys asked for his signature. No wonder Blair refused to have him around...
When the story broke about the Bush twins' being cited for drinking at a restaurant in Austin, Texas, I hoped it would fade before my deadline. I remember all too well when I was 19, although not as well as I would have if I hadn't gone in for a good deal of underage drinking. More recently, I remember being the parent of a 19-year-old and worrying about her underage drinking. I would have been a lot more concerned, however, had I thought a bunch of outsiders was going to be judging her as a teenager...