Word: internment
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...around Super Bowl Sunday when the people who are paid to pontificate on television--the group we refer to at our house as the Sabbath Gasbags--confidently said that Clinton would be out of office in a few days, that public outrage was particularly strong because baby boomers had intern-age daughters and that the American people would demand that President Clinton come forward immediately with a full explanation of the relationship...
...every day hoping that a letter will arrive offering me a fantastic paid internship with all kinds of perks. Instead, I pull out yellow envelopes from Harvard Telephone Services and Citibank Visa which add to my ever-growing pile of debt. I wait by the phone hoping for an intern coordinator to call asking me for an interview. My phone had two messages the last time that I checked--one from my mother and the other from my bank asking me to pay a delinquent bill...
...post office had lost my applications on the road? What if Bridger & Sons had already hired all of their applicants for the summer? What if the Senate decided it didn't need me? Rather than worry myself with these persisting, unanswered questions, I decided to worry the intern coordinators. I was reassured that my applications were "pending approval," and they told me to just wait...
...listening, hands folded prayerfully, concentrating with a ferocity that is a virtual assault of attentiveness. And he uses It like a movie star. The confluence of politics and performance finds its nexus in his indefatigable showmanship. He wants to romance not just the Congress or perhaps a stray intern but America, the world...
Making reference to the O.J. Simpson Trial, the death of Princes Diana and the more recent case involving former presidential intern Monica Lewinsky, Rather said network news broadcasts face many external pressures which frequently lead to news misjudgements...