Word: rebirths
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...Richard Nixon, coming into office in 1969, demonstrated a mildly hilarious phenomenon: the way in which a formerly scruffy and reviled politician may pass through the inaugural looking glass and become transformed. Tricky Dick, the familiar old five o'clock shadow of American politics, suddenly was credited with rebirth as the new New Nixon, a metamorphosis from which he emerged almost regal in manner and body English and even tailoring. Suddenly, his suits seemed to fit better, more presidentially...
...shirts bearing the legend "Bad to the Bone." The next showed one junkie in handcuffs and the second lying dead with a syringe sticking from his arm. Then we see the survivor in a hospital bed surrounded by caring medical staff. Finally we witness the junkie's glorious rebirth. He now has short hair and wears a crisp green longyi, or Burmese sarong, and a white waistcoat...
...Vice President's mansion Friday night bearing wine, a salt shaker, a wineglass and a cloth that is a family heirloom. Tipper had already set out candles, and the two couples slipped away for a private moment of prayer and reflection, later celebrating the Jewish Sabbath, and savoring rebirth, for however long it lasted...
...lecture last night, Grogan focused on four major trends: increasing numbers of grassroots organizations, the rebirth of inner city businesses, the decline in crime and the reform of the welfare state...
That's what cell phones are for: Much of the hallway chatter in Okinawa was about the strange near-death and rebirth of the Camp David talks just hours before Clinton departed last Wednesday. Officials insist it was not a ploy. In fact, National Security Council spokesman P. J. Crowley left Thurmont after announcing the talks were done and started driving back to the White House in preparation for leaving for Japan. As he drove, knowing that Clinton would have to motorcade back because bad weather grounded the chopper, he kept looking in his rear-view mirror for the speeding...