Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real and only-looks-like-real are mixed with abandon, a viewer can get disoriented. Newscasters like Connie Chung and Mary Alice Williams introduce Hollywood-style mini-dramas one day, news stories from Warsaw and Capitol Hill the next. Real-life victims of brutal crimes return to the scene to act them out for the TV cameras. At least one actor from America's Most Wanted was turned in to authorities by a concerned viewer -- who mistook him for the fugitive he played in a re-enactment...
Actually, I entered exercise hell at the Capitol Hill Squash and Fitness Club in Washington to avoid a tremendous lightning storm outside. It was either join the "Thursday Thumpers" aerobics class once or risk spending the rest of my life in a circus sideshow as "the man who was hit by lightning and now doesn't care what you put in his mouth...
...regularly use their positions for financial gain and sell their votes to the highest bidder, as the staff editorial rightly points out. Has he abused the public trust? If, as is expected, the Ethics Committee finds that Frank knew nothing about the prostitution ring being run out of his Capitol Hill apartment and clears him of any wrongdoing, the answer is no. Finally, will this episode irreparably impair his ability and effectiveness in fighting for the liberal causes that he and the voters of his district care deeply about? Ultimately, Frank and his constituents must decide that...
Frank, a five-term southern Massachusetts representative, has faced a storm of criticism of his 18-month involvement with Stephen L. Gobie, a Washington prostitute. Gobie has said that he operated a prostitution ring out of Frank's Capitol Hill apartment...
...Frank's own request, the House Ethics Committee is investigating his involvement with Stephen L. Gobie and Gobie's disputed claim that the congressman was aware he was operating a prostitution service out of Frank's Capitol Hill apartment. Frank has said he would await the ethics committee's inquiry...