Word: stumped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every First Lady has a favorite cause. Nancy Reagan just said no to drugs, Barbara Bush tried to improve literacy, and Hillary Clinton has been pressing for children?s rights. Now would-be First Lady Tipper Gore has decided to stump for her cause: the mentally ill. On Monday, Mrs. Gore took the lead in convening the first White House conference on mental illness, at which the President announced a $7.3 million study and pressed for better insurance coverage...
...Tipper hasn't been shy about telling her husband to snap out of it. And Tipper has been doing more than fixing things inside the Gore operation; she's also been fixing things on the outside. Just when Gore seemed to be running out of steam on the stump, Tipper has been pretty much everywhere, talking about Littleton on Larry King Live, acknowledging to USA Today and the Wall Street Journal that she has suffered from depression, traveling around the country to push mental-health reform. If it didn't have the look and feel of a campaign rollout...
Could it be Greer herself: a woman who has, in many ways, devoted herself to the life of the mind, unhindered by family? She teaches at Warwick University and produces scholarly studies on obscure women poets, whose work she publishes with her own Stump Cross Press. But Greer says the whole woman does not exist, and is not she. There's that little matter of waiting by the phone, for starters. "I still, ah, I make myself sick," she admits. "I will flirt, I will--bleccccch--do all of that s__, it's amazing...
...hands and throttles rivals with his feet. "George said, 'Think of a spider crossed with an orangutan crossed with a sloth,'" recalls Rob Coleman, the film's animation director. Coleman would pester Lucas for backstory on obscure creatures like Sebulba, "but I've never been able to stump him. He marinates in this world...
...tempest about climate change, but so far, it appears unlikely that Gore will do so. His strategists figure, quite rightly, that he can't be elected President solely as Mr. Environment and Technology. So they plan to fill out the rest of Gore's portfolio. His still evolving stump speech emphasizes such proven vote getters as education and health care. The main environmental program he will push is "livability," a grab bag of measures to fight urban sprawl, preserve open space and battle traffic congestion that should appeal to important suburban swing voters...