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...country's most prolifically failed presidential candidate, Harold Stassen, ran nine times, and in many of those elections he wore a toupee so alarming that the Washington Post thought it resembled a "sullen possum that had been dipped in bronze...
...what used to be rather quaintly called a nymphomaniac - and Jack, who is a whining hypochondriac. The pair live in New York; have been on vacation in Venice, which has not exactly rekindled their former passion; and are stopping off in Paris to reclaim her overweight and sullen cat and for him to meet her family...
...disapproved. In the spring of 2003, when Bush launched the war, deposed Saddam Hussein, occupied Iraq and declared victory, public approval of his conduct of the Iraq "situation" rarely dipped below 70%. As the "situation" went south, so did Bush's poll numbers, until now he faces snarling or sullen disapproval from two-thirds of the electorate...
...contrast, is the year of anxiety—when I await the answer to this question as an intern in the office of my oxymoronic comrades, the Connecticut Republicans. Lacking the glamour of a live campaign, the party headquarters offers only a knot of sullen political junkies who reminisce of better days. Still, as a longtime Connecticut Republican, the frustration of being in the minority has only reaffirmed my hope of kicking the Democrats out of office. Working for a political party in a non-election year has molded me from a sunshine ideologue into a true believer...
...Depp's inspiration for his character. He appears here as Jack Sparrow's old man, and he got a relieved round of applause at the screening I attended. Up to then the audience had been pretending to have a good time, even though it was succumbing to an increasingly sullen silence. But the old boy, with his grumbling voice, a few licks on a guitar-like instrument and his quite uncanny resemblance to Depp (at least in pirate drag) got their motors running for a few minutes. You wish they'd given Richards more to do, if only...