Word: perfective
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...Laughs.] When John was running in 2004 in the primaries, then Florida Senator Bob Graham was in the race. His wife is regal--tall, beautiful, always perfect and gracious in every way. I think there's part of the American public that wants there to be a queen. The public would have to tell you whether they're ready for somebody who sits on the floor playing Monopoly with the kids...
...York Times poll last week put its approval rating at just 25%. And while disapproval of Congress as a whole isn't rare, polls are finding that more and more voters are dissatisfied with their own lawmakers--a more telling phenomenon. The Democrats hope that come Election Day, this perfect storm of discontent will stir a giant wave to sweep the G.O.P. out of the majority. In a recent presentation to top Democrats, pollster Cornell Belcher said the party has its best chance since the Reagan era to win slices of the electorate that have come to be identified with...
...sponsored-and broadcast over the Internet-by Golden Palace Casino, which in the past has concocted marketing campaigns for oddities like Britney Spears? pregnancy test, William Shatner?s kidney stone, and the Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sandwich. Says Golden Palace Marketing director Drew Black: "This was just a perfect fit-what filmmaker is going to take their critics to the point to say, you don?t like me, put up your dukes...
...Dawson told his host that if he came to Harvard the team would never lose a game.Although that promise has not rung entirely true, Dawson was a major player in an undefeated year and Ivy League championship in just his sophomore season.And he’s hungry for another perfect year.The Crimson was projected to finish first in the Ivy league before the suspension of quarterback Liam O’Hagan and the dismissal of wide receiver Keegan Toci shook the offense up, and Dawson believes the squad can still play at that level.But this will take more than putting...
...head start. By middle school the kids are world-weary and anxiety-ridden. These domineering parents are the subject of books such as Alissa Quart's Hothouse Kids, Alexandra Robbins' The Overachievers and Madeline Levine's The Price of Privilege. Or last year's media sensation, Judith Warner's Perfect Madness, about mothers on the brink of insanity as they seek to create perfect childhoods for their tots. The affluence of these parents is never copped to; yet once these fears enter into the media bubble, they get supercharged into widespread panic by the multiplying coverage...