Word: trails
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...month, and occasionally experiences vertigo when he stands, a common condition his doctors said did not put him at increased risk for stroke. A doctor's visit in March showed that he weighed 163 pounds, down six pounds from a year earlier, which he attributed to the campaign trail's "long days and frenetic pace...
...criss-crossed the country for the past year, routinely putting in 16-hour days on the campaign trail, the 71-year-old John McCain has shown the physical endurance of a much younger man. But in the great microscope of American democracy, it's not enough for him to simply announce, with the support of his doctors, that he is in good health. Like any presidential candidate, he is expected to run for office as an open book, and prove...
...first Star Wars movie I saw was The Empire Strikes Back, and it rocked my kindergarten brain. At one point I had a modest collection of figurines, which mysteriously disappeared in the Trail of Tears Winters Sibling Room Swap...
Good sports all - unless, that is, you're one of those old-fashioned voters who still think what a candidate says on the campaign trail actually matters. Those ominous TV ads touting Hillary's readiness to handle any world crisis at 3 in the morning? Even the candidate herself began treating them as a joke. Edwards' insistence that the eventual nominee must promise to carry on his fight for the underprivileged? Worthy of a snicker. Obama's gripe that presidential debates ought to focus on serious issues like Iraq and the economy, not trivia like flag lapels? Oh, lighten...
...sensational. Maybe it should be. Maybe the telling should have a little flair, and a headlong rush toward dreadful truths. But that's not Eastwood's way. He just wants to tell the story, in uninflected, police-procedural fashion; the movie is like a flatfoot following a suspicious trail with no special intuition but an admirable doggedness. It doesn't hurtle, it ambles. You will look elsewhere (on the Internet) for documentation about the Wineville Chicken Coop matter, and the criminality of then-Mayor George Cryer as a pawn of the Crawford mob, of the L.A.-wide corruption that makes...