Word: pallid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gore, are post-liberal politicians who have built their careers around competence and mastery of complex subjects rather than ideological appeal. The almost willful blandness of these two white Democrats is a form of protective camouflage designed to help them win in November, if nominated. These sober strategies seem pallid to many Democratic voters in contrast to the feel-good allure of a vote for Jackson...
...eternal second banana, the man thought too timid to sculpt his own political persona, the patrician who ran a pallid third in last month's Iowa caucuses and staggered into New Hampshire facing extinction, the bland campaigner who ended one debate by apologizing for his lack of eloquence -- this consensus choice as political nebbish suddenly transformed himself into the prim reaper who could not be denied. Bush last week harvested victories from Massachusetts and Rhode Island to Oklahoma and Texas. His weakest rival, Jack Kemp, promptly quit the Republican contest. Pat Robertson, another ostensible threat on Bush's right flank...
...clearly an arms-for-hostages deal? As the proud author of the Administration's tough anti-terrorism policy, how could he have let the President be led into violating a central tenet of that policy, a refusal to make deals with hostage takers? Even his claimed ignorance is a pallid excuse, since it suggests, as Haig put it in an earlier debate, that Bush was not the plane's copilot, but merely "back in economy class...
...reality necessitates. From the first, Reagan took the opposite tack, making it sound as if all our woes as a nation could be cured with nary a discomforting turn. He said taxes would only be increased over his dead body. Well, the president is beginning to look a bit pallid about the cheeks. Walter Mondale, someone owes you an apology...
...conch in various guises, and the marinated, then grilled jerk chicken and pork are among coast-to-coast favorites. Along with callaloo (a soup of crab meat, kale and pork) and Jamaican meat patties, the chef at Manhattan's Sugar Reef also dishes up the aptly named but pallid "trendy wrapped fish" (perch cooked in banana leaves). At the Sugar Shack in Los Angeles, Cuban Moors and Christians (black beans and white rice) are offered with Caesar salad. The Indigo Coastal Grill in Atlanta adds Mexican carnitas and seviche...