Word: wanders
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...trivial pursuits was one of the peculiar and charming aspects of this presidency: Bush's relentless spontaneity. Bush is known for picking up the phone and calling foreign leaders, old friends in Texas, lowly bureaucrats in obscure agencies, to find out more about problems and policies. He likes to wander down to the office of his National Security Affairs adviser Brent Scowcroft to discuss the latest developments overseas. Sometimes, without a word to his wife, he'll invite visitors to lunch or dinner or even a sleep-over in the Lincoln Bedroom...
Leila is fond of exalted similes. "My heart blazes like Shelley's on that beach" (her boyfriend is back); "I wander in like Theseus into the Labyrinth" (she's in the wine cellar); "We lie together, Pan and Ceres, the god of the woods and the goddess of grain" (afterglow). Half the novel is about her ill-fated passion; the rest is her resume. Leila did the '60s ("I produced happenings with Yoko Ono") and civil rights ("Mississippi with Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney"). She sounds a little like the pathological liar on Saturday Night Live: Yeah, that...