Over-elated
In a New York Times story headlined "Man in the News: Harry Reid, an Infighter With a Sharp Jab," Mark Leibovich writes of the future Senate Majority Leader on Election Night:
He and Senator Charles E. Schumer, the New Yorker who leads the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, kept whacking each other like kids. “Remember, Chuck, when they said Sherrod was too liberal?” Mr. Reid said of Sherrod Brown, the newly elected senator from Ohio.
Mr. Schumer said nothing, but gave Mr. Reid something between a pat on the head and a noogie.
Later he observes of Reid:
His makeup could not hide the bags and crags on his un-Botoxed face.
Is it just me, or is this "reporting" vaguely surreal? The Bags and Crags on His un-Botoxed Face sounds like some kind of postmodern jazz-noise-groove ensemble, doesn't it? Okay, maybe not.
Update: Actually, I think the word I was looking for wasn't "surreal" so much as "sycophantic". And nothing vaguely about it.
He and Senator Charles E. Schumer, the New Yorker who leads the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, kept whacking each other like kids. “Remember, Chuck, when they said Sherrod was too liberal?” Mr. Reid said of Sherrod Brown, the newly elected senator from Ohio.
Mr. Schumer said nothing, but gave Mr. Reid something between a pat on the head and a noogie.
Later he observes of Reid:
His makeup could not hide the bags and crags on his un-Botoxed face.
Is it just me, or is this "reporting" vaguely surreal? The Bags and Crags on His un-Botoxed Face sounds like some kind of postmodern jazz-noise-groove ensemble, doesn't it? Okay, maybe not.
Update: Actually, I think the word I was looking for wasn't "surreal" so much as "sycophantic". And nothing vaguely about it.