Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cover. White House aides protest loudly that Landow is the last man they would enlist as a presidential cutout. Though an old supporter of Vice President Gore, Landow was a latecomer to the 1992 Clinton campaign, after backing Democratic rivals. He is also not known for having a soft touch, which is, for those who suspect the worst, exactly why he might make a good go-between...
...Biggest tourist draw in southwest Montana," a chamber official crows. But even as visitors stream in, authorities must take elaborate steps to scare away waterfowl with loudspeakers, firecrackers and a boat. Such precautions weren't in place three years ago, when migrating Canadian snow geese had the misfortune to touch down on the waters for a drink. In the following days, officials counted 342 carcasses floating and washed ashore, their insides scoured with burns and sores...
...conflicting testimony about her state of mind after the Clinton encounter. According to Linda Tripp, who claims to have encountered Willey after she left the Oval Office that day, she seemed "flustered" but "happy." When Newsweek's Michael Isikoff was pursuing her story last year, Willey put him in touch with a friend, Julie Steele, who first said Willey had confided in her the night of the encounter, then recanted and said Willey had asked her to lie to support Willey's account. Through her lawyer, Steele told TIME that she didn't learn of Willey's meeting with Clinton...
...tragically, Coupland crosses that line as well. His prose in this novel is infinitely better than his point, which as the novel progresses comes across more and more as a cartoonish attempt at profundity. While he does touch on themes that ring painfully true regarding modern views on death, technology, loneliness and lack of purpose, too often he mixes them with banal platitudes or smart-ass witticisms that reduce his ideas to the absurd...
...fact, it is Dudden's distantly-familiar female colleague, Dr. Madison, who makes the connection that both men once lived in Ashdown, the first of several oddities she reveals throughout the story. Meanwhile, on the other side of London, Sarah has taken a teaching position, after having kept in touch with Terry for a fair amount of time. However, she can't keep from wondering what has happened to Veronica and Robert in the interim, particularly why the latter's isolated attempts to contact her had been so cryptic...