Word: summers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since there are no "real" people in the Hamptons, the working part of Hillary's working vacation will be this week, when she retreats to the Finger Lakes, where voters who don't use summer as a verb are known to congregate. For months, Hillary debated whether she should spend her entire vacation upstate and unchic to convince Empire State voters that she's no carpetbagger. Remember how former adviser Dick Morris persuaded the pair four years ago to give up their beloved Vineyard because polling found it insufficiently American? Enough with the sailboats and James Taylor crooning...
...think the people who collect checks over at the Republican Party would be having a terrific summer. After all, the money is coming in like bats to a barn at daybreak. In the first half of the year, the party hauled in $29.4 million in "soft money"--unlimited contributions that are used for getting out the vote, putting "issue" ads on the air and covering other big expenses. That's about 45% more than the party raised in the same period four years ago. Isn't it time to pour the margaritas, toast the revving economy and give thanks...
...found in restaurants, the Van Gogh Sunflowers of risotto. This is the life of a man who knows grandeur. I simmer the chopped onions and fennel in a pool of butter and shave Parmesan into a bowl while my clients sit on the front steps, enjoying the last of summer in St. Paul, watching people stroll past, waiting...
...family who lives most in the moment, as we are told in poems to do--to gather rosebuds while we may and treasure the hour of splendor in the grass and prove the pleasures that this brief summer yields. Hers is the age of sheer delight, and among her dog pals and wading pools and her books and my risotto, she is gathering rosebuds left and right...
...Harvard's batsmen, you do none of these things. Dutifully following one of sport's ultimate cliches, the boys of summer have been taking things one game at a time...