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...subject-verb mangling. More exciting still was his style. Occasionally he walked the stage hunched like a gunfighter, arms poised to pull his pistols. To punctuate a point, he'd sometimes squat and bow his arms as if he were trying to lift a water cooler. Or he'd poke the air like a man torturing an elevator button. And, boy, could he paint a wicked rhetorical picture. A particular favorite popped up at an energy-policy speech in Saginaw, Mich. Like most of his speeches important enough for a TelePrompTer, his emphasis track was unhooked from the actual text...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Did He Really Say That? | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

Boucher, Fried took a poke from freshman Tyler Kolarik and slammed home his own rebound...

Author: By Jennie L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 867-5309: Give the Rookies Some Time | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...OLYM-POKE GOLD A heated exhibition of skill, reflex and endurance will begin in Sydney next week. No, not the Olympics. It's the first Pokemon World Championship. In case you're clueless--or past age 14--here's how it works: players "train" six creatures on their Nintendo Game Boys, upload them to virtual stadiums and they bludgeon one another into comas. U.S. hopes rest on national champ Ian Garvey, 13, from New Hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Sep. 25, 2000 | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...Many soldiers let the perceived power go to their heads, and that power was abused" one unidentified soldier told investigators. "Soldiers would spit on locals, push them on the streets, poke the women with sticks, and generally act like barbarians." On one occasion, after a boy had obtained permission to take some soldiers' photograph, one of the troops grabbed his camera and smashed it on the ground, the report said. This happened after they had agreed to let them take their picture," a U.S. Army civilian interpreter told investigators. "This," the report concluded, "was an unprovoked attack on a child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How U.S. 'Peacekeeping' Became a Reign of Terror | 9/19/2000 | See Source »

...example, he could poke fun at the Dallas Cowboys' love affair with mind-altering substances. Doug Flutie's awful ads for 10-10-220. John Madden's barbeque-mobile. The list keeps going on and on--once Miller find his targets, you'll be watching MNF again. And it'll be something to rant about...

Author: By Vasant M. Kamath, | Title: Monday Night Funnyman | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

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