Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hated Primary Colors because it was about politics, you might just love the movie Bulworth because it is not about politics as we know it. Any resemblance to a politician dead or alive is accidental. Sick of the Senate and himself, and knowing that he is going to die soon, Bulworth proceeds to deliver head-snapping reality to his audiences--that money has rotted a system that has abandoned those at the bottom--as he romps comically through Los Angeles, from Rodeo Drive to Watts...
...movie makes clear, any politician who tries this at home will die. Not to worry. The last thing anyone in Washington wants is to blurt the basic fact of elective office--that you buy it and pay off the debt in daily installments of breaks to special interests. In real life, those few good men and women who truth-talk are quickly marginalized. Senator John McCain, fighting first for campaign-finance reform and now against the cigarette makers, is presumed by the public to be a great candidate for President but equally presumed to be unable to get his party...
...Magoo, he fired off an astonishing amount of ammunition at every species in God's creation, to be stuffed for the American Museum of Natural History. Lyndon Johnson returned to his Texas ranch to drink and smoke and grow his hair long like a hippie and wait to die. Richard Nixon did brooding penance beside the Pacific, then went back East to reinvent himself as elder statesman...
...home, connected to the scene by Los Angeles' ubiquitous TV newschoppers, Daniel Jones, 40, a Long Beach maintenance worker, acts out his made-for-TV theatrics. He has spread out a banner for the helicopters to see: HMOS ARE IN IT FOR THE MONEY!! LIVE FREE, LOVE SAFE OR DIE. And then, retreating to his pickup truck, he pets his dog, leaves it in the cab and sets the vehicle on fire. Partly aflame, Jones runs into the highway he has commandeered. Pulling off his burning pants, he picks up a shotgun, places its butt against a wall, bends...
...June the House will consider Istook's Religious Freedom amendment to the Constitution, which would allow organized prayer in public schools. And before August, for the third time in three years, they will vote to outlaw "partial birth" abortions. The fact that much of this agenda will either die in the Senate or be vetoed by Clinton doesn't matter: the votes are about making politics...