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Enter Mrs. Dole

Elizabeth Dole is all perfection. She shoots one take, without exception. She drives her staff so no step's spared To get an ad-libbed speech prepared.

Calvin Trillin

March 18, 1999

Elizabeth Dole is all perfection. She shoots one take, without exception. She drives her staff so no step’s spared To get an ad-libbed speech prepared. There’s not a wrinkle in her dress. Her hairdo makes Lott’s look a mess. So will some human adversary Say Mrs. Dole is sort of scary?

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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