Word: servants
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...moving vans to take them to Pennsylvania Avenue. But for Gore, more than anyone else who's out of a job on January 20, the challenge does not lie in the few weeks before Inauguration Day, but in the months and years that follow. What will this lifelong public servant do with himself in the unexpected and inescapable void yawning out ahead...
...done a lot of things in my life. I've been a soldier, a reporter, a farmer and a divinity student. And 24 years ago, I decided to become a public servant. And ever since then, I have dedicated my life to a certain set of ideals. That democracy is something sacred. That under it, all men are created equal. And that America is the land of opportunity...
...contends that he was speaking as a citizen and then a public servant. He also points to a flawless service record as reason to allow him to remain...
...offensive: tying sensitive males with powerlessness, athletes with stupidity, and academics with homosexuality (something no doubt more offensive to homosexuals than to academics). All of these stereotypes seem not just prejudiced and distasteful, but also outdated, like the erotic costumes for Hurley (the Catholic schoolgirl outfit, the civil servant uniform, the angel costume, etc.). All in all, for a movie with huge swaths of Brendan Fraser running through it, Bedazzled is surprisingly bearable. But if you expect to see anything that you haven't seen before, or anything that will make you laugh harder than a mild chuckle, Bedazzled will...
...assertions that hasn't lifted yet. But two basic images loom through the haze. The first is Bush's portrait of Gore as a retrograde liberal who wants to patch up the edifice of the Great Society. The second is Gore's portrait of Bush as a faithful servant of the rich and powerful who wants to wire-transfer the surplus into the bank accounts of the upper class, spending "more money on tax cuts for the wealthiest 1%" than he does for new education, health-care and defense programs combined. Are Bush and Gore right about each other? Every...