Word: pales
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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They've touted you as one of the nation's most influential men under 45. They say that you are the GOP's most effective calling card. Can you see yourself being the future face of the GOP? You are young, ambitious, conservative, and not as pale-skinned as the rest of the party is. Look, I think that my election was about Louisiana. Now it's true, my opponents certainly spent a lot of money making sure everyone knew what political party I was in and trying to tie me to the actions of other people, like the President...
...here to tell you, he is the one." That was probably too portentous for anything but daytime television. But the freshness of Obama's personality, the easy elegance of his mind--and the fact that his fabulously American racial provenance has become an afterthought for so many winter-pale Iowans--have been the most memorable aspect of this primary season...
...VOGUE Blush-colored shirts became a fashion craze in Thailand when King Bhumibol Adulyadej was spotted wearing a pale pink shirt and blazer last month. To meet the growing demand, the Commerce Ministry produced 30,000 more of the prized garments for those who wished to emulate their longest-serving monarch and honor his 80th birthday...
...Michael Van Devere cited your “classically handsome” appearance as one reason for casting you. Do you think you resemble the original John Harvard? AB: I bet I resemble the statue more than the other people that tried out, and I’m pretty pale, so that probably helps with the Englishman. FM: What do your friends think? AB: I think people who know me know me as a goofy dude. My concept of John Harvard as a character is not me at all, which was actually very liberating to play. I think people that...
With Burton at the helm, for example, we know the film will be visually front-loaded. His London is very murky and dark, its citizens very pale and sickly, the better perhaps to complement all the blood they're about to be sloshing around in--or to remind us of old black-and-white horror films. We also know there will be an abundance of quirk. What's not certain is whether the film can find an audience. Will the buckets of gore and the presence of the erstwhile Captain Jack Sparrow--not to mention an appearance by Borat...