Day 1,654: autocue, satirist, vaudeville, forswear
Her autocue sometimes seems to have been hacked by a satirist.
The president is not a good campaigner and is up against a candidate whose rallies are a cult meeting crossed with a vaudeville show.
One way she could serve her party and her country, and help keep Mr Trump out of the White House, would be to forswear another term as vice-president.
Artwork of the day
Theatre du Vaudeville
Edouard CortesStyle:Post-ImpressionismGenre:cityscape
Word of the day
autocue: a brand name for an electronic device used by people speaking on a television programme that shows the words they have to say while they look directly at the television camera
satirist: a person who writes or performs satires, which are ways of criticizing people or ideas in a humorous way, especially in order to make a political point, or a piece of writing that uses this style:
vaudeville: a type of theatre entertainment in the 1800s and early 1900s that included music, dancing, and jokes
forswear: to make a serious decision to stop doing something:
Quote of the day
“Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet