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...smaller palm trees and that's how I painted it in the jungle ? " Later he added, "I always tell young painters, 'Paint outside! If it's cold, wear a coat!'" What the crowds loved most was a quality in his booming voice that has largely disappeared in the rush to cool postmodernism - passion, swaggering passion. They lapped it up like wine from a broken crock...
...those who find the spectacle of Bill Geist at a seniors stripper convention too sensational, the show closes with a cool-down: the Nature Endpiece, a minute of wildlife footage - whooping cranes or wild rabbits or the Yukon moose - with no music or narration, just the rush of wind or water and the occasional bird call or bleat. (If the National Geographic Channel had videos, these would be in the top 40.) Having mellowed us out, Osgood signs off with a subtle plug for his daily commentary: ?I?ll see you on the radio...
...Gummi Bears, and when he gets cranky he sometimes demands of an aide, "I thought y'all were getting me a candy bar." An empty Hostess cupcake package can often be found next to John Kerry's bus seat; he munches on the snacks for a late-night sugar rush. Howard Dean is almost Clintonian in his appetites. In Iowa he wolfed down pork sandwiches and strawberry milk shakes, and sometimes made detours to the dessert table; once, after an aide told him there was pie in the pressroom, he braved the reporters' gauntlet for a slice...
...terrorism--"Now we're marching to peace ... now we're secure in the peace"--seem insensitive in the extreme. David Kay, the President's hand-picked weapons inspector, said there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The economy remains iffy. The budget deficit is exploding. Even Rush Limbaugh had unkind words last week about the Bush spending spree...
...campaign is the best thing that has happened to the Democratic Party since Bill Clinton. It is reborn and feisty, thanks in large part to the partisan jolt provided by Dean. The leading Democrats are now making strong, sharp arguments against the President's most fateful decisions: the blind rush into an elective war, the economic and legislative tilt toward the wealthy. If recent performances are any guide, the President hasn't developed an adequate response yet. He will have to break free from his cocoon and reacquaint himself with the public, if he hopes to find...