Word: capitol
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...process, Gingrich, a man willing to stick out his tongue at some venerable American institutions, has become a sort of Establishment guerrilla, attacking the institutions he badly wants to lead. In the election year of '94, when the Capitol dome appears in campaign commercials as something weirder and more sinister than Dracula's castle, Newt's Congress-bashing strategy is bearing fruit. It's the Gingrich gospel you hear in the words of voters like David Bywater, 26, a Nebraskan who is supporting Republican newcomer Jan Stoney against Senator Bob Kerrey. "Seniority means you've been around too long...
...said they had voted for Foley in the past. This year none of them plan to. Ironically, the Speaker's effectiveness was one of the reasons why. "It's basically pork. Even though we live here, it just isn't right," said Bob Johnston, 37. They also think of Capitol Hill as a place where no favor is done for free. Foley knows who to lean on and which string to pull, they agreed. "But what did he give away to do that?" demanded Gerard Schille...
Meanwhile, as it began to appear that Foley had given up, the whispered criticisms among fickle Capitol Hill insiders grew louder. They have always regarded his speakership as something of an accident. But only five years ago, his gentle dignity and judicious temperament were hailed as just what the House needed after his predecessor, Jim Wright, resigned amid scandal. Now those qualities of Foley's are more often seen as weakness -- something his party cannot afford in the face of the strongest and most confrontational Republican force in decades. Sniped a Democratic House aide: "Many of us are hoping that...
...brutal standards of Campaign '94 this is tame stuff, but it marks a distinct change for Foley. In past years, he ran his races quietly and mildly, with ads that showed him standing in a wheatfield and talking about his homesteader roots, or walking the Capitol corridors with his beloved Belgian shepherd Alice, who used to go to work with him. He is, after all, a man who began his congressional career three decades ago by holding a reception for the man he defeated. Nethercutt, who had been blasting Foley for months, seemed genuinely surprised by the Democrat...
...Capitol set opens with Powell's first date as a leader, recorded on Roost in 1947, kicking off with a sprung version of I'll Remember April that betrays none of Powell's troubles. It bursts with giddy invention that could have tipped the song into anarchy if Powell hadn't been able to restrain his own abandon. He was so good and so graceful, he could realize his inspirations with tremendously controlled dexterity. The earliest of the Verve recordings are from 1949, and they end with a 1955 session in which Powell, his bass player and drummer close...