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...statistically probable comes to pass, on Saturday at noon, Al Gore will have a number to shoot for. It will be Bush winning Florida by 300, 400, 800 votes - but with only the "unofficial" imprimatur of the Associated Press, it's not likely to be indelible in the public mind...
...moral leverage. And so Baker was really offering Gore an exit strategy: depart the field now, as the clear popular-vote winner, and live to fight another day - in 2004, Gore will be only 57 - or take your chances, face a popular-vote recount elsewhere, and risk losing that imprimatur as party leader, heroic victim, Mr. Popularity. Bush's people were betting Gore would take this sooner or later. But the offer may not last long. "If they want to play hardball, fine," said a Bush aide. "We're prepared...
...Clothes were weapons for the original Shaft, whose fierce styling created fashion conventions that survived for decades. Despite the Armani imprimatur, though, the new Shaft looks like a catalog shopper. He may have dissed the drug dealer Peoples in his Egyptian cotton as a "cheap knockoff mutha-----" but Shaft's own styling is unlikely to inspire any new look, precisely because its baldheaded, black-polo-neck-and-raincoat look has long since been a mainstay of R&B music videos...
...explicitness into our conversations. But the Lewinsky matter is only the latest in a series of episodes that have made graphic sex talk more common. The onset of the AIDS epidemic brought the clinical-sounding phrase anal sex into our homes, and the Clarence Thomas hearings gave the imprimatur of the U.S. Senate to dirty talk that would make us wince in mixed conversations. The rape trials of William Kennedy Smith and Mike Tyson accelerated the trend toward frank sex talk, and the rise of Viagra brought to mind graphic images--featuring Bob Dole. Granted, in the Clinton scandal...
STRENGTHS Disney's beloved imprimatur. Do Eisner's troops ever go wrong...