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...ROUND 4: Bush wakes up! When it came to the tax cut question, W. was at his best - cogent, clear. His riff on Gore picking winners and losers and having to hire all kinds of new IRS agents - well, that was good stuff. But in the two-way shots, where Bush is waiting for Gore to finish his answer, he keeps sighing and smirking and looking around. Try the decaf! Still, this has been W.'s best moment...
ROUND 5: Bush did a lot better on that tax question and he did fine on the education stuff. But, jeez, he still seems off his game - not the charmer of Midland but the Boston Mangler. He had a nice riff complimenting James Lee Witt, Clinton's head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA. It looked big, gracious. Gore, of course, like a machine calculating that he had to be nice, too, came back and complimented Bush's handling of Texas's fire woes. Then Gore had to take credit for making FEMA a better agency. Gore is just...
...plans to pay the estimated $1 trillion it will cost to reshape Social Security into a system that will let Americans invest part of their premiums. Gore's people believe Bush has the rigor and tight message to get through the first two answers but that his riff will begin to sound thin in the back-and-forth. Here too they hope to get to what they see as the point of their endeavor: raising doubts about whether Bush has the weight...
...like how he plans to pay the estimated $1 trillion it will cost to reshape Social Security into a system where Americans can invest part of their premiums. Gore's team believes Bush has the rigor and tight message to get through the first two answers, but that his riff will begin to sound thin in the back and forth. Here too they hope to get to what they see as the greatest point of their endeavor: raising doubts about whether Bush has the weight...
...Volume 2" Now down to a three-piece, these reliable purveyors of too-clever-by-half pop music have stripped down their production aesthetic as well in this bookend to last year's "Volume 1," which offered the more laid-back portion of the Venus collection. Fans of crafty, riff-driven XTC warhorses like "Respectable Street" will immediately respond to " Playground," whose natural buoyancy reaffirms Andy Partridge's mastery of the thinking person's guitar rock. There's no denying that departed guitarist/multi-instrumentalist's Dave Gregory textural touch is missed, and the song quality is a bit uneven, but even...