Word: patting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mirroring the Democratic emphasis last month onfamily values, both the president and vicepresident stressed the need for keeping the familyunit an integral pat of the nation's socialstructure, repeating the theme from Wednesdaynight's session that featured Barbara Bush'sspeech...
...Pat Robertson on Bill Clinton...
...supple guitar riffs and fluid compositions of PAT METHENY are still the best evidence around that jazz-pop fusion works. But Secret Story is not just another eloquent instrumental statement. It is a "theme" album with a surprising subject: Pat Metheny. The tracks form an emotional though virtually wordless chronicle of his ill-fated romance with a Brazilian woman. Above the Treetops uses a sweet-voiced Cambodian women's choir to herald the excitement of new love. The intensity builds through the poignant Longest Summer (on which Metheny makes his piano debut). The wrenching finale, Not to Be Forgotten...
They are so young and so tiny that spectators want to pat them on the head. When their eyes narrow and their faces scrunch up with concentration, audiences go squishy with the adorableness of it all. Sports commentators cooingly label them pixies and tots, then reach for adjectives like huggable, perky, cute. Sort of like puppies. Always they are described as "the next" Olga or Nadia or Mary Lou, as if anyone so small couldn't possibly have standing in her own right...
Clinton's TV appearances seem both more smoothly presidential and more drably predictable. Taking call-in questions on NBC's Today show last Tuesday, Clinton had his act down pat, greeting each caller by name ("Good morning, Lucille") and giving carefully measured recitations on everything from education loans to women's rights. His class-president cool was broken just once, when an avowed supporter asked if Clinton would clear up his stance on the Gennifer Flowers allegations: "Just skip any weasel words and give us a | direct answer." Clinton proceeded to repeat his familiar weasel words: Flowers' story about their...