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Gore and Bradley have got themselves into a shameless arms race, each one trying to outdo the other in flattering and cajoling minority voters.
The magazine explains why the president's poll numbers are so high: 1) he courts them ("like a kid who gets straight A's by flattering the teacher"); and 2) polling questions are phrased with a calculation and nuance that are positively, well, Clintonesque.
As a striving free-lancer, I believe in the three note theory of success: i.e., send three flattering missives to the right people each day, and you'll be at the top in no time.
"It has come to this: the natural desire of a young woman for an aggressive, handsome and powerful middle-aged man and the reciprocal pleasure that such a man has in the flattering attention of a pretty young girl--these totally mutual and consensual instincts that are built into the human psyche, whether one likes it or not--have created a tempest in the United States that could lead to a constitutional crisis.
Fashionable women discovered that simply cut garments in plain black fabric were as flattering to them as evening clothes were to men.