Word: hugs
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...their stereos, that her music sounds better when it's "played loudly." She lets tiny fluctuations in her music carry emotional weight, and she wants listeners to hear the particulars. After all, isn't love best measured in miniature? - a look across a breakfast table, a forgotten anniversary, a hug that lingers past hello...
...understandable that we should want to ferret out the deepest motives and incongruities of the people we choose to represent the nation. But the public search for intangibles has led not to intangibility at all, and instead, to a series of soft "facts"--a tearful hug, a passionate kiss, a supporter who has traveled the country to be here tonight--meant to stand in its stead...
...Bush, the bogeymen are just as scary--a large and intrusive Federal Government, a sickly military and moral collapse. But rather than wrestle these problems to the ground, as Gore does, the Texas Governor proposes to hug them into submission. In La Crosse, Wis., last Wednesday he was in the groove, having long ago replaced the snarly candidate of the South Carolina primaries who had trouble hiding the coiled tensions within. Displayed instead was a sunny persona, a peaceful, easy feelin', complete with dropped g's, that crowds and cameras were soaking up. Promising to end "finger-pointin' and partisan...
...George Bush wins in November, Ted Kennedy should brace himself for a big hug. In Debate No. 3, Bush made the case that all we need is love. He wished for a law he could sign mandating it and a planet where we would all "love a neighbor like you would like to be loved yourself." Love, not partisan wrangling, will produce policies that will leave no child behind and extend the life of Social Security while permitting yuppies to day trade the trust fund...
...daughter has read all the books now, and I said to her about the ending of Goblet of Fire, "When you reach Chapter 30, Mommy's going to read it to you, all right?" Because I thought, I'm going to have to hug her, and I've got to explain the stuff. And when the character did die, I looked at her to see if she was O.K., and she went, "Oh, it's not Harry." She didn't give a damn. I was almost thinking, "Is this not scary at all?" She was just like, "Harry...