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algorhythm: a restrained style of dancing peculiar to advanced yuppies...
...fully four months before the election suggests how clouded Bush's political future has become. The President of late seems more melancholy than usual, flashing with uncharacteristic anger in public, seemingly haunted by unseen furies. At a political fund raiser in Detroit last week, he complained that this "weird, peculiar" political season comprised little more than "endless polls, weird talk shows, crazy groups every Sunday telling you what you think." But less than 48 hours later, Bush himself was appearing live from the Rose Garden on the CBS This Morning show. The network's producers had plucked 125 somewhat perplexed...
...disturbing omen in the sky of late...his own face in the clouds, sticking its tongue out at him. Calvin however, in another telling reflection of our society's emphasis on science and fact, at the expense of fantasy, merely sees this as being a sing of "very peculiar high altitude winds," and doesn't worry...
...Rudman, in short, offers the rarest of commodities in the current vice- presidential veepstakes -- Washington experience coupled with the image of a truth-telling outsider. For in the latest irony in a peculiar political year, both Clinton and Perot have been musing about similar -- even identical -- vice-presidential nominees. As political analyst Kevin Phillips puts it, "What Perot needs in a Vice President is someone who's political, yet puts the finger in the eye of the politicians. Someone like Rudman. And Clinton too needs a running mate who reinforces his outsider status with Perot swing voters...
Some of 1991-92 "wacky" these include topics ranging from examining the sociological implications of children's literature to an investigation of the role of female heroines in Disney movies. With such topics, one has to wonder if some seniors did not actually have fun constructing such peculiar theses...