Word: hauntings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...news about a record annual budget surplus, the governor pressed the case that Al Gore couldn't be trusted to keep the good times rolling. Arguing that Gore blows the bank with his spending promises, W. resurrected the same liberal ghosts that his father used so successfully to haunt Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential race. Though he didn't use the word "liberal," Bush said the vice president represented "the old ways of tax and spend," and sketched a Gore world where a tax collector stooped under every stairway and the gargantuan federal government would awaken and slouch toward...
...addition, his faith could still come back to haunt him in the more conservative areas of the country. Over the summer, in the heat of the veepstakes, Boston Globe political columnist David Nyhan came to speak at the Institute of Politics. He appraised the chances of each contender on the Democratic side and chose Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kerry as the most likely vice presidential pick. Nyhan said that Lieberman would not be picked because the nation's heartland was not yet ready for an Orthodox Jew on the ticket...
...capital here; few diners in Chinatown could identify a member of Hong Kong's ruthless triads; unless they're very unlucky-or foolish-revelers can blithely blow their spending money in the strip clubs and girlie bars of Kings Cross without encountering the standover men and drug dealers who haunt the shadows...
...arms is long. In the U.S., a starting pitcher typically throws between 100 and 140 pitches a game. In Japan, 200-pitch games are not unheard of. The wear-and-tear on Matsuzaka's arm from his torrid schedule as a high-schooler might well come back to haunt him. "I worry about his future because he throws a lot compared to American pitchers and even other Japanese pitchers," says Isao Ojimi, a former pro player in Japan who now scouts talent for the New York Mets. "Managers in Japan aren't worried about their players' futures, they only care...
They're red herrings, naturally. The Spencer house really is ghost-ridden. But once that fact is established, What Lies Beneath begins to succumb to a common genre problem. When the haunt ceases to be a set of eerie manifestations and begins to take on shape and form, all the spooky fun tends to drain out of these pictures. This one becomes a variation on the Fatal Attraction theme, but with more muscular action and, finally, a lot less plausibility. That's too bad, because the early wit of Clark Gregg's writing and some persuasive direction and playing...