Word: beltway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton faces an uphill battle starting today. The transition to a fully Democratic Beltway will take months. The economic recovery needs to be handled carefully. The deficit looms as a problem to hit after the recovery stabilizes. Foreign policy will demand his attention in ways we can't yet envision...
...QUAYLE and AL GORE prepared for their debates, each vying for the label of most humble candidate. After Quayle pointed out that Gore went to fancy schools, Gore one-upped him: "While he is preparing for the debates in the center of the Federal Government, inside the Beltway, I'm going to do my preps in a barn." Gore's aides tend to run around in polo shirts and jeans. On Air Force Two, Quayle's aides are often seen in stocking feet...
POLITICS MAY BE IN VOGUE IN PRIME time, but inside-the-Beltway sitcoms like Hearts Afire and The Powers That Be look cheesy next to a really smart political film like HBO's RUNNING MATES. Ed Harris plays a slick U.S. Senator who needs a wife to boost his bid for the presidency. Diane Keaton is a children's book author who falls for him but becomes a liability when a past indiscretion surfaces. The two stars click as a romantic team; there are nice offbeat touches (Keaton's mentally unbalanced brother, played by Ed Begley Jr.); and the backstage...
...candidates lie -- in a technical sense -- every time they read a speech they paid someone else to write, every time they gush over how thrilled they are to be among the real people outside the Beltway, and every time they feign modesty after a particularly effusive introduction. But the voters have become inured to such petty fabrications. The big fibs are the problem -- the read- my-lips whoppers. So here, as a public service, are some rhetorical tricks ; that signal DANGER -- SHARP CURVES AHEAD...
...outsiders have fared well. In Washington State, 41-year-old Patty Murray, whose previous political experience amounts to one term in the state senate, cast herself as "just a mom in tennis shoes" and beat former seven-term Congressman Don Bonker for the opportunity to run against another Beltway insider, five-term Republican Congressman Rod Chandler, for the Senate seat vacated by retiring Democrat Brock Adams. Murray becomes the 11th woman this year to make it onto a major party ticket for the Senate -- another record...