Word: swingingly
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...bright, sunny afternoon. You envision yourself hitting the longest drive of your life. You rear back and swing with all of your might... but instead of rocketing off into the pristine blue sky, the ball shanks to the right and crashes into the trees...
...subject of golf metaphors, let me turn your attention to The Legend of Bagger Vance, the latest directorial effort from Academy Award-winner Robert Redford. Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, it's the mystical story of a golfer in search of his swing and his soul, and the caddy who helps light the way. It doesn't take an English concentrator to find the metaphor in that. Of course, the trouble with metaphors is that you can only take them so far. After all, not everybody plays golf (in fact, most people probably couldn't tell...
Just what would an alien landing in a swing state think if he or she picked up a newspaper? Every day, the same headlines: Gore Smashes Bush Social Security Plan! Bush Accuses Gore of "Scaring" Seniors Into Voting Booth! Gore Kisses Old People! Bush Loves Old People More Than Gore Does, Says Aide! Old People Rock, Declare Candidates! Our friendly Martian could be forgiven for assuming the American electorate is made up entirely of senior citizens...
...simply been duped by a spurious devotion to personality over politics, the effectiveness of the Republican slander campaign against Vice President Al Gore '69 and near-total inability of the Democrats to articulate the issues at stake. These three tragic elements combine to give working-class independents, who will swing the election, the mistaken idea that the route to education reform, environmental protection and a fair wage for a fair day's work runs through a vacuous philosophical sham termed "Compassionate Conservatism...
...inventive vote-swapping mechanism on pro-Nader websites to elect Gore and get Nader over 5 percent -- if you live in a swing state, trade your Nader vote for a Gore supporter's in, say, New York -- has been declared an illegal "corruption of the voting process" by California Secretary of State Bill Jones, a Republican. Two of the vote-swapping sites have shut themselves down...