Word: hoses
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...nine of us formed an e-mail list to synchronize our schedules. For a while we shared a lot of information quickly and efficiently, but then someone lobbed an online insult, or "flame," and the fire soon raged out of control. Some of us fled. Others stuck around to hose things down. But things were never the same...
Without prompting, BEN AFFLECK, the star of Pearl Harbor, can deliver a recitation on the history of American isolationism that includes references to the America First movement, Charles Lindbergh, Wendell Willkie and F.D.R.'s neighbor's-house-on-fire, lend-him-a-hose speech. He's not dating Gwyneth Paltrow--but it's clear he's been spending some quality time with Doris Kearns Goodwin, who's foxy in her own way. As for the movie: "I play a guy who believes we should be in World War II," says Affleck. "I have kind of a John Wayne idea about...
Indeed, discussion was faintly reminiscent of the Constitutional Convention--sans wigs and hose. Impassioned debates flared, and fists pounded the table in lieu of a gavel to monitor the bursts of excited speech...
...cuts above his right ear and dark linear scars on his forehead. The bruises on his back are a succession of yellows, greens and blues. On the bottom of his tiny feet are unhealed third-degree burns. He had been battered and tortured. He had been tied with panty hose and belts to a banister by the woman who had become his foster grandmother. The state of Georgia had taken him away from his mother, then abandoned him in the woman's care. Little Terrell Peterson had so many injuries that the medical examiner gave up counting them. The child...
...pretty low, and Bush cleared it by plenty. He seemed to run out of gas in the last half hour as Gore calmed down, and seemed to get his foot tangled in the rhetorical garden hose from time to time. Like his father, he has spotty sense of timing - preprogammed phrases tend to pop up at unexpected times - and unlike his father, he still needs work on his foreign policy if he's to avoid a daily beating in the New York Times. But after this, the first of the last three Possible Turning Points of this airtight race...