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...body language, his wording, his breathing. He was yanked back by an invisible harness whenever he came close to sneering, to uttering a personal anecdote that would be leapt on by some network-news Truth Squad. When he did attack Bush on a point of fact, the effort to reign in his disdain was palpable: questioning a Bush answer on Texas hate-crimes laws, he said, dispassionately, "I may have been misled by the reports that were in the news." You could practically see the bite marks he left on his tongue...
...leaping over the Clinton presidency of the last eight years and accepting his language about the era of big government, Bush seemed to be tacitly endorsing the Clinton reign. "My opponent has left the vital center of American politics," Bush said as if the current situation - against which he often rails - represented that vital center. So much - for the moment, anyway - for bashing the way things are done in Washington...
...last week. He became the first man since Mark Spitz in 1972 to win the 100-m and 200-m freestyle finals - perhaps an even greater feat than the American's considering the Dutchman's stellar opponents. In winning the blue-ribbon sprint title, Van den Hoogenband ended the reign of Alexander Popov, who was trying to win his third straight Olympic 100-m freestyle gold. "It's not the end of the world, obviously," said the 28-year-old Russian, undefeated over the distance for seven years before the Dutchman beat him last year in Istanbul. "I have already...
...Fridays starting Sept. 22, 8:30 p.m. E.T.) is a sitcom a clef: a behind-the-scenes satire of a teen soap that more than slightly resembles 90210. The pilot spares no one: not Star, whose clone on Pointe is a smarmy phony; not Shannen Doherty, whose reign of terror on the 90210 set is replicated eerily by Hunter Fallow (Irene Molloy). Nicely cast and smartly paced, it's a sassy, catty riot...
...During the last week of school he hosted a sleepover with about 20 kids from the program and he gave them free reign over his dorm, with all of the PlayStation games, movies and CDs contained therein...