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...people, assembled by the Gore camp. They arrived with the lion's share of them, 41 percent, undecided. They left with 53 percent of the room for the vice president. The Gore staff felt so good about its candidate's performance in the debate that it wants to pour precious advertising dollars into rebroadcasting it on cable channels in battleground states...
...that soft padded globe that you call a baseball, the metal-hard leather and cork cricket ball that we use really hurts if you catch it. However, those who play in the cricket field do NOT have those namby-pamby padded gauntlets that baseball fielders use to protect their precious little fingers. I guess cricket is just a real guy game as well as an intellectually challenging game of wits...
...selection of "Young at Heart," one of several standards she successfully takes on, is particularly apropos - Williams is not merely young at heart but borderline infantile, and while her baby-talk affectations can verge on the precious, she's a savvy enough singer to pull it off. In the best songs, such as "Gladys and Lucy" and "Junk," the effect is as satisfying and sensual as the scent of lilac on a porch in the summer...
They may have lacked a certain something in spontaneity, but last week's presidential and vice-presidential debates did offer some revealing moments. Aside from their tendency to snort and sigh, the men at the top of the ticket also seemed disinclined to yield precious seconds for a mention of their running mates. Let's see if they behave more generously in this week's installment...
...uninitiated, such objects may look like cowpats, but their roughness has always made them precious to the Japanese connoisseur. Koetsu once sold his house to raise the money - 30 gold coins - for a particularly famous old tea caddy he yearned to buy. Later he came to see the ownership of such exalted things as "a nuisance" and the antiquarian enthusiasms they aroused as irrelevant: better to make them for oneself...