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...know if you get this--but a political campaign is not just a performance for people." "Let me explain to you, Al, how the private sector works." At such times, Bradley looks at the Vice President as if Gore had suddenly morphed into an overripe mackerel; Bradley's voice, normally so flat and affectless, drips with sarcasm and a condescension that borders on contempt. Because to Bradley, who really does see himself as a better class of politician, Gore is an opportunist driven by ambition instead of principle--the kind of candidate who will demand on Wednesday that his Pentagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Tell Them Apart | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

...course, defining the "real world" and its "real people" can be sticky. Whose to say that the quality of mackerel and incestuous soap operas are more "real" than any of our daily concerns, especially for we seniors, for whom resume font size and Kaplan Review are no laughing matter...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Remembering the Real World | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...MACKEREL [3 hearts] AMERICAN EEL [2 hearts] TUNA [2 hearts] ATLANTIC HERRING [2 hearts] NORWEGIAN SARDINES [2 hearts] RAINBOW TROUT [2 hearts] LAKE WHITEFISH [1 heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eating Smart | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

...Bird-Dog Club Hunting Preserve or pursue a "father-son traditional hunting adventure" with the Mt. Kineo Charter and Guide Service in Maine. If fishing sounds less barbaric than gunning down Bambi's mother, the Cape Cod National Seashore might be a prime choice for hooking bluefish, striped bass, mackerel, or albacore. And one can head off with bait and tackle to Thoreau's old haunt, Walden Pond, to ponder the incompatability of civil disobedience and Ad Board restrictions on in-room Glocks...

Author: By Eloise D. Austin, | Title: The Deer Hunter | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...show her what kept me going to the ocean," she says. We come to a shovelnose guitarfish, named for obvious reasons. A grouper rows by, sculling with its pectorals. We take in the synchronized swimming of sardines and the pensive patrol of a leopard shark. She points out mackerel gleaming in the light. "I have been diving in shallows like these with the moon overhead," she says. Only half kidding, she adds, "I consider them all to be holy mackerel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYLVIA EARLE : Call Of The Sea | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

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