Word: poof
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Someday soon, we promise, this will all be over--the endlessly reiterated accusations and the emphatically repeated denials, the circumlocutions of shameless hirelings and the tut-tutting of editorialists in the Washington Post and the New York Times. All of it gone, vanished, poof!--as if it were a dream or a phantasm...
...meets girl, boy hates girl, girl hates boy even more, boy and girl grow up hating each other. But suddenly when boy and girl end up at the same college, poof-a strange and interesting friendship arises. Such is the extremely unique excuse used to fuel the modern day brat packers in another round of self-promoting teeny-exploitation. Hey, and didn't that kid have sex with a pie?! Yes, as if his talents in American Pie didn't give him all of creative and anatomical exposure to last a lifetime-Jason Biggs is back, this time...
...sort of deflation comes in the aftermath of Super Tuesday - a sense of premature crescendo, as if the party had been called off at 9:30 p.m. John McCain and Bill Bradley gave the race its resonance - its conflict, its moral fire, its nastiness. Now - poof! - both of the interesting men appear to be gone. And we are left with Gore and Bush, the sons, the dynastic duo, the Expected Ones...