Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Candidate statement: "I can use my experience in the partnerships formed at Harvard and my leadership experience as mayor of the city of Cambridge to unite coalitions with a vision for my idea of a just city that provides affordable housing, open spaces and fairness to all people...
Give Bill Bradley credit for this much: he has put a big idea on the table. Not the $65 billion plan to provide health insurance for just about everyone; not a social agenda extending full civil rights to gays; not even the plan he unveiled last week to devote $10 billion to address the "slow-motion national disaster" of child poverty. No, the big idea was the very idea of having a big idea...
...working with churches and civic groups and businesses and individuals, then who? It is Bradley's challenge to every other candidate: Why should they not dare to dream heroic dreams? as Ronald Reagan once put it. And now it is their challenge to make the case that a big idea is not always a good idea. "Big and bold is fine," says an adviser to Al Gore. "Big and bold and unrealistic...
...maybe just sitting home and watching TV isn't such a bad idea. Perhaps we should leave this NYE-Y2K to panels of reveling pundits discussing whether they're having fun yet. Or how about tuning in to some Extreme Reveling? Jon Krakauer Presents: America's Most Dangerous Galas. Experience, from the safety of your own La-Z-Boy, just how dangerous an unfurled noisemaker can be in a violent windstorm at 75[degrees] below zero...
...WHAT?! Seems everyone's ripping off the iMac idea. Take this parody ad for the fruity-colored "iBrator" at sleeplessknights.com The site also has a movie takeoff of Apple's famous 1984 commercial, but the heroine doesn't throw a hammer. Steve Jobs' response: "Well, we do encourage people to think different...