Word: barney
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many figures are bandied about regarding the homosexual population in the United States, but the most accepted one is 10 percent. Just to give voters the benefit of the doubt, though, let's say 5 percent of America is homosexual. To my knowledge, no senators are openly gay, and Barney Frank is the most outspoken homosexual in Congress. So we have a 0 percent gay population in the Senate and a fraction of a percent in the House. America may never be ready for a gay president, much less a first partner...
...movie of the week with Tori Spelling, but the sound is muted. Lori's favorite show is ER; it's paced at about the same rate as her life. Sam doesn't watch much of anything other than Barney and auto racing. The clock ticks; the ceiling fan whumps. Mike has given Sam his bath; the baby arrives, damp and in mismatched pajamas, to snuggle. Lori says his hair smells like candy...
...book Washington Babylon, Cockburn asserts that Pressler had hastily married "amid speculation that he was gay." The only source cited by Cockburn and co-author Ken Silverstein was Steve Gobie, the former homosexual prostitute who entertained clients at the Capitol Hill apartment of Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank, though without Frank's knowledge...
...Speaking at Villanova, Dole said Clinton "talks like Dirty Harry but acts like Barney Fife." As the Democrats were quick to point out, Georgia Governor Zell Miller used that exact analogy in speaking of President Bush at the 1992 Democratic Convention...
...have been interested in politics for as long as I can remember, "voting" with my parents for Carter, Mondale, Dukakis and finally, successfully, for Clinton. Two weeks ago, I volunteered at H.Y.P.E. for almost six hours, listening to speeches by Robert Reich, George Stephanopoulos, Teresa Heinz and Barney Frank '56 and attending a spirited debate between Haley Barbour and Chris Dodd. On Saturday, September 28, with 200 other Harvard students, I went to the John Kerry for U.S. Senate fund-raiser at the Fleet Center. I entered, but sadly lost, the lottery to see Hillary Rodham Clinton...