Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What's with these guys? In recent years the House Judiciary Committee has become an ideological rodeo. Its everyday agenda is heavy on such hot-button issues as late-term abortion, school prayer, gun control and affirmative action. The subject matter has done a good job of attracting true believers from both sides. "We're terribly polarized," says a staff member with a tinge of pride. "We fight like cats and dogs." Prominent Republicans with a cause include Charles Canady, father of the English-as-the-official-language bill, and Barr, an anti-gun control crusader with close ties...
...kowtow to celebrities. Having interviewed a slew of them for magazines, and having been interviewed almost as much himself since his first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, was published in 1984, McInerney knows how generic the whole experience is. The main character in Model Behavior just hits a button on his keypad to produce a paragraph about an actor living in Montana (CTRL, Mont) or a starlet claiming she still thinks of herself as ugly (SHIFT, What, me sexy?) for the magazine profiles he writes. But McInerney's characters haven't grown up since Bright Lights: instead of going dancing...
...partisan idealists in Congress: 16 soft-left Democrats, 21 hard-right Republicans. Each one is driven not by his or her constituents -- they're all in extremely safe seats -- but by their own political conscience. And boy, what consciences! This is a committee that routinely handles such hot-button issues as late-term abortions, gun control, school prayer, same-sex marriage and assisted suicide, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a member with a moderate view on any of them. When it comes to bickering over Bill Clinton's fate, nobody does it better than this crew. Click...
...things seem to be happening way too fast in the world economy. Countries no longer slide into recession; they plunge headfirst over the cliff, faster than a fund manager can hit the redial button on his phone. Now that Russia's finances have imploded, the worriers are turning their attention to the other onetime communist colossus grappling with economic reform: China. Since the once vaunted "Asian miracle" has taken on the aura of a curse, a lot of investors and governments are asking if the People's Republic of China will be the next to fall...
...quite possible that Monday's regular programming will be ditched in favor of the President trying to duck explicit sex questions. It's also possible that millions of Regis, Rosie and Sally Jesse Raphael fans will suddenly discover that they know how to use the "off" button, after...