Word: cannoned
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Certainly the plot of "The Marriage of Figaro" requires a tongue-in-cheek approach; on paper, it is the kind of convoluted intrigue that gives opera a bad name. Figaro (Brian Saccente), valet to the Count Almaviva (Josh Benaim), is about to marry his sweetheart Susanna (Sarita Cannon), but the Count also has his eye on her. Although the Count has abolished the droit du seigneur, which traditionally allowed the lord to deflower any bride on her wedding night, he is tempted to revive it in Susanna's case. Though a philanderer, the Count is fanatically suspicious of his innocent...
Last Thursday night, exactly one year since his triumphant ascent to the Speaker's chair, Gingrich stood before his troops at a private session in the Cannon caucus room. He had told them then that there would come a dark hour, when the fight would grow hard, the polls pitiless, the prospects bleak. And he had promised he would be right at their side, that once they had won the war, all the pain would be forgotten...
...last the moral, political and philosophical imperatives came crashing down on their House. Gingrich spent the rest of the day talking with various factions within his ranks, and at 7 p.m. Thursday he summoned them to the Cannon building to offer his proposal. Dole had, in essence, taken 10 steps so the others could take five. It was the sort of leadership that earned him, in another venue, a chestful of medals and a withered right arm. Some freshmen could not believe their own House leader was deserting the cause. "There is not a need to cave," said an incredulous...
...CERTAINLY HAS BEEN THE MOST INFLUential Speaker of the House in the past century, since Joseph Cannon. Sam Rayburn was respected and influential, but he was not an active formulator of agendas. He was very influential in lining up votes and he was consulted by the President, but he did not say, "I have a vision; I want the government to be this and do that." It is very rare to have a Speaker of the House who has a vision of any kind, because they usually don't get chosen for that role...
Though Gingrich is the first Speaker to be Man of the Year, he is by no means the only one to grace TIME's cover. Our very first issue, dated March 3, 1923, showcased Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, a 23-term Republican who had just announced his retirement. "To Uncle Joe the Speakership was a gift from heaven," TIME declared. "And he followed the divine call with a resolute evangelism that was no mere voice crying in the wilderness, but a voice that forbade anybody else to cry out--out of turn." Nearly three-quarters...