Word: bushed
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...make-up of the 106th Congress is not that different from the current one, in terms of numbers. Republicans still hold narrow majorities in both houses. But the spirit of American politics seems to have taken for the better. The victories of the Bush brothers in Texas and Florida indicate that the moderate wing of the Republican Party, and not the reactionary wing, has a future. The Democratic resurgence in the South, marked by the capture of two Senate seats and two governorships (in Georgia and South Carolina), is a welcome shake-up to the country's regional political divide...
...Gore has more reason than most to be cheerful, with Democratic gains in California and the South jump-starting his presidential campaign. But there was a bright silver lining for the GOP: George W. Bush's victory in the Texas gubernatorial race, where he bucked national trends by collecting almost half of the Latino vote and nearly two thirds of the women's vote, confirms his big-tent appeal. And after Tuesday's setback, that's exactly what the Republicans will need...
...that there wasn?t good news for the GOP, too -? at least if your name happened to be Bush. Jeb in Florida and George W. in Texas both coasted to victory in what may be a foretaste of the next presidential election. Elsewhere, it seems, the religious conservative base of the Republican party was simply not motivated enough to turn out in the same kind of numbers that made 1994 such a watershed. Does that mean President Clinton is off the hook? Not according to Branegan. "After a deep breath of one or two days," he says, "the Washington establishment...
...Then again, George W. Bush is getting along with just about everybody. After getting reelected in a walk to the Texas governorship, Bush -- along with his brother Jeb, a winner in Florida -- is ready to take a new Republicanism to the national stage, the kind that women and minorities can support. "The Bushes are saying that moral issues have hurt the party," says TIME Austin bureau chief Sam Gwynne, "and they have broad enough support -- Hispanics, blacks, even Jews -- that they don't necessarily need the religious right." They got it anyway; exit polls indicated that along with everyone else...
Roberts aspired to paint vigorous narratives of national identity, of hard, challenging work in the bush: A Break Away!, 1891, his rendering of young jackeroos (Australian for cowboys) galloping furiously to head off a stampeding mob of sheep, remains a national icon a century later. Streeton painted not wilderness but settled pastoral land, framed by vast space. In The Purple Noon's Transparent Might, 1896 (the title is from Shelley: culturally, England still bore strongly on these highly nationalist artists), the high-keyed light and crisp, decisive brushwork create a broad, deep and coherent space brimming with heat...