Word: malling
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...this multimillion-dollar partee, Big Bill Clinton -- excuse us, William Jefferson Clinton -- played the role of First Audience. TV viewers of America's Reunion on the Mall on Sunday, or of Tuesday afternoon's Salutes to Children and Youth and the evening's Presidential Gala, could doze through all the dos. Clinton couldn't and wouldn't. A pretty fair performer himself, he knew that a speaker is only as good as his listeners. So he gave the victory fist to soprano (and fellow Arkansan) Barbara Hendricks. He misted up at Goldie Hawn's tale of her dead father. Jackson...
...Woodstock on the Mall, actor Edward James Olmos quoted Lincoln: "We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." Clinton, a good student with a good memory, mouthed the words as Olmos spoke them. Clinton must have realized that, in a different sense and a different era, America faces the task of disenthralling itself, of shaking off the Hollywood stardust and facing facts...
Bush scanned the crowd spilling down the Mall. "Huge," he thought admiringly. He spied South Carolina's Republican Governor Carroll Campbell Jr., who had fought hard for Bush. The fading President was feeling even better...
...John Esposito, saying that she suspected him of molesting her son John, 16, a claim that he now supports. During the investigation into Katie's disappearance, it emerged that in the late 1970s Esposito pleaded guilty to the attempted abduction of a seven-year-old boy from a shopping mall. In 1988 he applied to join the Big Brothers/Big Sisters organization, which offers role models to children from single-parent homes. When suspicious officials turned him down, he used a supermarket bulletin board to offer himself as a freelance mentor...
...this how the two nations will be reconciled, with sitcoms and rock videos flooding south while Mexicans move northward to shed their past in exchange for a line of credit? Regarding his young nephew in California, poised to start life in the shopping-mall civilization, Rodriguez wonders. "I think it is Mexico I see in his eyes, the unfathomable regard of the past, while ahead of him stretches Sesame Street...