Word: heys
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...many ways the world--is smarter than I am. I don't honestly believe, though I have tried to, that this has been the case for the past eight years. It seems that George W. Bush never really got it. It was all just a photo op: "Hey, look where I am, Dad!" It is a shame that so many people had to die because of such childlike whims and lack of caring. I was born in the South, and I have seen a lot of ignorance and intolerance. I now live in Northern California, so I have seen both...
...anyway, it hasn't worked.) The purpose of a stimulus is to get the entire economy moving again. Put money in people's pockets and let them spend it. Or, even better, let's spend it together on national projects like fixing the highway system. Bring on the earmarks! Hey, Sarah--where did we stash those plans for that Bridge to Nowhere? (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...July and had his final cut by the end of October. This cool efficiency endears him to screenwriters (if he likes a script, he shoots it without demanding a million rewrites) and most actors (if he likes Take 1, he prints it and goes to the next scene). Hey, it's only a movie. And often--say, Breezy, Pale Rider, Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Flags of Our Fathers, to skim five off the top--they are movies that have the craft and heart of classic Hollywood, without that musty antique odor...
...always referred to as "Sabbath gasbags" - the Washington people who appear on television on Sunday - were wrong, I guess, 100% of the time. They were almost never right. There were constant surprises. Who expected any of this stuff? It was only in looking back at it that you realized, hey, at one point this was going to be [Rudy] Giuliani vs. Hillary Clinton...
...Hey, Rudy: Organize This! Joe Klein's "Passing the Torch" was a tonic for me [Nov. 17]. During the Republican National Convention, when Rudy Giuliani sneered that he didn't even know what a community organizer is and Sarah Palin - with sarcasm that made my skin crawl - remarked that she guessed that a "small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities," the insult was personal and deep. For the first time in my life, I donated financially to a political campaign - Obama's. My mother, a beloved longtime community organizer, has been...