Word: jovialness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Gore, who says he decided against running for the collective benefit of the country, his party and his family, experiencing a few pangs of regret? Perhaps, but to his credit, you'd never know it to watch his almost jovial exchanges with the press this week. After carrying the burden and the stigma of the 2000 election for more than two years, Gore looks like a man who finally has other, infinitely more important things to worry about...
...only squeaked through?by a single vote. Mir Zafrullah Khan Jamali, 58, is a tribal chieftain from Baluchistan and a former national field hockey player, who is now expected to wield a big stick against the politicians on the general's behalf. It is unlikely that Jamali, a bearish, jovial man, will be able to do so. He won just 172 of the 329 votes cast. And even that thinnest of margins was suspect: a rule forbidding party defections was waived at Musharraf's behest, so that 10 PPP legislators could switch sides and back the army's man. "Democratic...
...course for Rove since he joined the Bush campaign in 2000. Rove is considered by both Democrats and Republicans to have one of the country's sharpest and most instinctive political minds. He has made plenty of enemies along his road to success; some say his personality, which is jovial at times, can turn nasty when he (or his candidate) is in trouble. Others say he'll do just about anything...
...post-game press conference, Morris was jovial...
...action films. The director's flair for building memorable kung fu moments has put him in high demand in the U.S., where he has been asked by several studios to reshoot some of his earlier works in English. Sitting in a hotel suite overlooking the Hong Kong skyline, the jovial director insists his movies are not only about violent engagements. "For me," he says, "the drama takes precedence over the action." His favorite scene from So Close, one in which Shu Qi and Zhao quarrel, doesn't contain a single kick or punch: "On screen...