Word: speak
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...primaries, Joe Biden took flak for his dopey description of Obama as "the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." Articulate is one of those racially tinged words that sports announcers use to express surprise that a black man can speak proper English, and clean hints at even uglier stereotypes. But the key word in that verbal vomit was mainstream, because it suggested that most blacks aren't. And the media perpetuates that idea by excluding middle-class blacks from their middle-class calculus...
...sitting alone in a room with a clock, turning on a tape recorder, and starting to speak into it. Speak about anything you want - with the proviso that your topic, and your opinions on it, must be of interest to some group of strangers who you imagine will be listening to the tape. Naturally, in order to be even minimally interesting, your remarks should be intelligible and their reasoning sequential - a listener will have to be able to follow the logic of what you're saying - which means that you will have to know enough about your topic to organize...
...candidates will gather briefly at the site of the World Trade Center to mark the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks in 2001. Neither man will speak at the site; they will instead bear witness to the tragedy that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Shanksville, Pa., and left thousands of others wounded. It is enough that they would stand side-by-side to mark the anniversary. "We will put aside politics and come together," the two men said in a statement released jointly...
...candidates will not speak together at the forum, but they will both participate in a discussion about national service with TIME managing editor Rick Stengel and PBS's Judy Woodruff...
...even the latest Eddie Murphy comedy, Meet Dave, fresh from its Hollywood premiere and just starting a run at the town's Reel Cinema, can compete. Le tout Loughborough has turned out to meet another Dave, a politician seeking the highest office in Britain. This evening he'll speak in the town hall, in a room overlooking "Sock Man," a bronze figure naked except for one sock and a strategically positioned leaf. It's a monument to the hosiery industry in this central England town - not quite Berlin's Siegessäule, the portentous backdrop to Barack Obama...