Volume 46, Number 19 · December 2, 1999
Opening Moves
By Louis Menand
The morning after Al Gore and Bill Bradley's first joint appearance in the presidential campaign, at a 'town meeting' at Dartmouth College, the New England edition of The New York Times ran a picture on the front page of Gore responding to a questioner, his arms extended in a gesture of empathy and entreaty, while in the background a slightly out-of-focus Bradley looks on warily. The front page of the Rutland [Vermont] Herald had Gore in a Kennedyesque pose—forefinger jabbing, chin jutting—while behind him a slightly out-of-focus Bradley looks on a little incredulously. On the front page of the Hanover paper, the Valley News, Gore is standing and speaking animatedly while Bradley sits, glaring at Gore, arms folded, cheeks puffed out in an expression of exasperation.
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