Word: beltways
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just last year, the Institute of Politics' (IOP) Summer In Washington Program (SIWP) brought Harvard undergrads working in D.C. to the offices of beltway bigwigs like Supreme Court Justice Antonin G. Scalia, politico James Carville and Deputy Chief of Staff Sylvia Matthews for a series of informal gatherings and speeches...
...busy ignoring William Ginsburg's fairly ridiculous (and quite un-lawyerly) comment about facts and law being "always subordinated to the will of the American people," Washington's real subordinates -- politicians in an election year -- were struggling to find their footing now that "End the probe" is the Beltway's most popular...
...butter note, a valentine to her host, the President, written in the prose of a Harlequin romance: she sees "a man in a dinner jacket with more heat than any star in the room...his height, his sleekness, his newly cropped, iron-filing hair." Forget, wrote Brown, "all the Beltway halitosis breathed upon his image...the neo-puritanism of the op-ed tumbrel drivers." Instead, say yes to the electrical, existential Now of Bill Clinton: "He is vividly in the present tense and dares you to join him there...
...next day Drudge appeared on NBC's Today show. In his introduction Matt Lauer called the Drudge Report "a media gossip page known for below-the-Beltway reporting." Lauer asked Drudge about his story. Drudge said Tripp "has told this to investigators." Asked if he had confirmation, Drudge responded, "Not outside of what I've just heard, but I don't think anybody does at this point." The Today show had just given NBC News' imprimatur and a national platform to Drudge to report on the President. "I wouldn't call what he does reporting," objects University of Virginia professor...
...quirk in this year's calendar brings to mind the question: Can presidents and valentines truly share a weekend? (Don't answer that, Mr. Clinton.) If anyone can bring the be-mine spirit to the Beltway, it's Frank Capra...