Word: boucher
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Campaspe is homelier than Tiepolo's "official" women, who appear in paintings like Time Uncovering Truth, c. 1743. These, one is inclined to think, are among the first "modern" beauties in painting. Not wardrobes of flesh like Rubens' goddesses, not pneumatic dolls like Boucher's nymphs, they are (relatively) slender, blond to redhead, and have the minxy arrogance and perfectly toned skin of runway models, inaccessible, gazing down from their nests of vapor in the blue-rinsed sky above. In Tiepolo, the women always seem to be running the show; his emblematic heroes like Rinaldo, by comparison, look almost effeminate...
...RICK BOUCHER (D) District 9 (Southwest--Blacksburg; Bristol...
Since his election, Boucher has defeated three G.O.P. challengers with ease. In 1994, when Republicans stormed the rest of the House, he still won with an impressive 59% of the vote. Boucher supports Head Start, Medicare and Medicaid, but--and this could explain his ability to defeat Republicans--opposes gun control and punitive tobacco legislation. Not considered "one of the boys" in his rural district, he nevertheless has his Hill colleagues' respect for his expertise on--and connections to--the telecommunications industry...
Ultraconservative Muldoon emphasizes the need to revive religion and stop the "moral decay" of the country. He captured primary voters with his spirited speeches, ridiculing Rick Boucher's high-tech expertise, saying, "the information superhighway is a great thing, but you can't drive on it." Instead, he wants to build roads and infrastructure to lead business into southwest Virginia. His energy seems potent, but Muldoon faces a formidable opponent...
...about time," said Joanne Boucher, assistant city clerk, who could recall more than one presidential election night when "it was time to get up and go to work again before the ballots were counted...