Word: honeymooner
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...long and rather strange winter that began, more or less, with the U.S. Supreme Court's intervention in the presidential election, and proceeded through a thin post-inaugural honeymoon - the Phony War - ends, more or less, with a crystallization, at last, of issues that betoken the real war that looms...
...down. He'd spent four years in prison for helping lead the Tiananmen uprising and she assumed, as she had been taught, "that made him a bad person." But he was fun. He made her laugh. And slowly, he won her over. In 1995 they married, took a honeymoon cruise down the Yangtze and bought an apartment big enough to fit the refrigerator in the kitchen instead of the living room. They had become Chinese yuppies...
...skill and success cannot be merely attributed to his honeymoon. The speech was a genuine success on its own. In its substance, it was effective at displaying diplomacy and bipartisan spirit. Even barbed references to "the way we did things in recent years," and veiled insults at the Clinton style ("We didn't take a poll") went over like honey. In his delivery Bush was personal and poised, well-spoken and witty. He displayed remarkable timing and confidence. In short, he worked the room the way Clinton used to--maybe better because Congress actually likes him. Also, Bush arrived...
...scandal engulfs another Rodham, the genial, decent one, Hillary's younger brother, known as Hughie. A near constant presence in the Clintons' lives since he and brother Tony tagged along on their 1975 honeymoon, Hughie has a complicated relationship with his sister. Growing up, the little warmth their father Hugh Rodham Sr. had to give went primarily to Hillary. She was the Warrior Princess of Oak Park, Ill., beating up the boys in the neighborhood, always the captain when her brothers played "spaceship," less afraid, by her telling, of the scary flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz than Baby...
...Well, there's this danger that Congressional Democrats are playing into Bush's hands. The White House already knows that Bush's honeymoon will end soon and its top people are previewing this to reporters so they set the bar low for Bush. He's a master at keeping expectations low, then exceeding them. As one senior Senate GOP aide told me, "We are going to be aggressively underestimating ourselves throughout the entire process. That way we husband the momentum of the President and weather some of these ups and downs...