Word: hug
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When Clinton is not playing it safe, his personality is a pole away from Michael Dukakis': he looks happy at the risk of seeming insufficiently serious. His version of a campaign handshake ranges from a bear hug to a full body slam. As he plays host at yet another fund raiser and poses for one more picture at a campaign breakfast with a woman dressed as if it's cocktail hour, he can be as ingratiating as a frat-house president during rush week. He told a voter during his last Governor's race, "I was afraid you might...
Police claimed Roger Clemens, a three-time Cy Young winner, jumped on the officer's back and choked him as he tried to arrest Gary Clemens. But another witness testified this week that Roger Clemens put a sort of bear hug around the officer...
...local celebrity, G.L. Johnson, and his 16 assistant pastors, I run a gauntlet of "greeters" using all their skills for instant intimacy. Opening the service, Pastor Johnson says, "Turn to your neighbor and smile, turn all around and smile. I like fellowshipping. I like to see people hug a lot." As one leaves the huge parking lot, a sign proclaims, YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE MISSION FIELD, and people drive out smiling the gospel of Fresno. A prosperous-looking dentist's office has on its sign: DR. SO-AND-SO, D.D.S., DENTISTRY FOR SMILES...
Logan County is a remote and isolated pocket in the southwest corner of West Virginia, an undulating succession of mountains rounded by eons and carpeted with hardwood forests. Many residents live in trailer parks and frame houses that hug the Guyandotte River system. The people are proud and charitable, rugged and patriotic. "Culturally speaking, Logan Countians will damn sure fight for what they believe in, whether it's fighting the coal companies, the Iraqis or each other," says Logan council member Stan Morgan...
After every episode of Studs, the contestants all gather at center stage and hug each other. We watch the ritual for a moment--then the rap beat begins to blast, the credits begin to roll and DeCarlo walks in front of the camera, spouting some nonsense about the evening's spectacle. The huggers remain in the background, barely visible. When the cameras cease to roll, Laurie will probably kick Morris where it counts...