Word: refraining
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...circles, and bite editors on the calf. Bill Clinton, though brilliantly seductive as a communicator, comes as an amateur to the business of memoir-writing. How difficult will Clinton be to handle? I don't know. And who will be handling whom? Gottlieb is smart enough to refrain from writing in the margin, "INSERT SEXUAL NITTY-GRITTY HERE." Gottlieb's problem will be to get the boy from Hope to be honest in more important ways...
...mostly female audience stands, claps and sways to the pumping R.-and-B. music while the broadly smiling woman onstage repeats her refrain, then breaks into a sermonette. "Have you ever forgotten that you have the power?" she exhorts. They cheer. "How many women here over 40?" Big cheer. "You know, we can't do it with our bodies anymore. We got to slip into our brains, right? That's when we have to remember, 'I got the power! I can make them think that I'm a size 5!'" Bi-i-ig cheer...
...actually and figuratively. Lois Nightingale, a clinical psychologist in Yorba Linda, Calif., notes that dating is an adult experience and advises parents to leave their children out of it. She recommends against bringing a casual date home to spend the night. In fact, she suggests that parents refrain from introducing their dates to their children until a firm relationship has been established, if only to protect the kids from prematurely developing an attachment to another adult. This may be the one thing I've done right as a dating parent; I've never involved my daughter in my romantic misadventures...
...Professionally hit? I refrain from saying "Single A short-season," though I do think it-which I take to be a pretty good sign. My real sense of humor, not that macabre mindplay I suffered at the ballpark, is returning. The doors to the room swing open and those two nice EMTs come in, bearing a gift. "The game ball," one explains, and for the first time I think: Hey, some kid grabbed the ball that hit my daughter on the head! That's okay. We've got this game ball signed by the Single A short-season Spinners...
...Even before the campaign started, the C.R.E. asked M.P.s to sign a pledge calling on candidates to refrain from stirring up racial hostility. It sounds harmless, but some refused on the grounds that it was wrong for the group to enforce "political correctness." Shortly thereafter, Foreign Secretary Robin Cook suggested - to some derision - that Britain's multicultural success was shown by chicken tikka masala becoming the country's most popular dish. Then a retiring Tory backbencher raised temperatures when he said the British were becoming a "mongrel" race through immigration. Hague forced him to apologize. The gusts of opinion that...