Word: thumbings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...remember a photograph from one of Clinton's first visits to the Oval Office after his first election. He was wearing a short-sleeved sport shirt and was sprawling at his desk. He was drinking a large mug of root beer, and he had his large white thumb projecting through the handle around the tankard. The waves of vulgarity this picture gave off made me have the strong instinct that he was going to vulgarize the office of the presidency...
...ShowStopper sometimes got confused about what channel I asked for, which meant that I spent a lot more time watching U.S. Marshals on TNT than I really wanted to. It doesn't help that the onscreen interface is clunky or that handling the humongous remote control is like thumb wrestling Andre the Giant. The other day my wife flopped down on the couch. "I could watch TV," she sighed, "but it's too much work...
...Mike Deaver come out of retirement (and change political parties) to coach Al and Tipper? "Think Hyannisport, 1960 - think Kennedys!" Gore gets credit for the best cynical JFK imitation since 1988, when Gary Hart would descend from his campaign plane with one hand thrust in his jacket pocket, thumb protruding, à la Jack, and walk gingerly across the tarmac, as if he had injured his back while swimming away from the wreckage of a PT boat...
...Mike Deaver come out of retirement (and change political parties) to coach Al and Tipper? "Think Hyannisport, 1960 - think Kennedys!" Gore gets credit for the best cynical JFK imitation since 1988, when Gary Hart would descend from his campaign plane with one hand thrust in his jacket pocket, thumb protruding, à la Jack, and walk gingerly across the tarmac, as if he had injured his back while swimming away from the wreckage of a PT boat...
...rooting this week? "Whoever was paying him," says Creamer. "I suspect that would be the Mets, still trotting him out at 110." They would prop him up on the mound, and the Old Professor would peer in at the Yankees bench. After a dramatic pause, he would flagrantly thumb his nose...