Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...motorcade sped through leafy Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in late September, Al Gore leaned against his orthopedic back pillow, drank bottled water and reflected on the human spirit and his newfound sense of self. How is it that the wooden-tongued policy wonk of 1988 has emerged as an introspective spokesman for the inner child, an icon of the new manhood? Says Gore simply: "I found the connection between my head and my heart...
...QUAYLE You know you're in trouble when your spokesman has to explain you were joking...
Perot's payouts have hardly been limited to his senior staff. According to FEC records, some of the smiling souls sporting Perot buttons and canvassing the country are workers hired from temporary agencies. They had to be taken on, according to a campaign spokesman, because so many of Perot's early volunteers left in disgust after the candidate pulled out in July. In California, Pennsylvania, Texas, Tennessee, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois and New York, Perot has spent at least $430,000 to keep his volunteer networks manning the telephones and walking the streets. Which goes to show that...
There are certainly times when Miller's monologue is a little too full of slick lines: when he asks God rhetorically why he has been spared death from AIDS while so many of his friends have died, or when he, as the spokesman for all gay men, urges them to "bare our souls and our buttholes." But his vision of life and love is enduring: lovers are "naked in the sight of each other, who are the only ones who matter," or, more bluntly: "We can't let these right-wing fuckheads tell us how to fuck...
...free. Relatives of the dead were outraged, yet the owner's punishment was unusually strong for fire violations. "I can understand the pain of the community, but this is by far the stiffest sentence that I'm aware of for a worker-safety criminal charge," says Douglas Fuller, a spokesman for the Labor Department. That message will probably spread among plant managers around the country...