Word: domes
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...perhaps only in the strictest sense. Because, in truth, Election 1994 was not about sending leaders to Washington; it was about sending a message to Washington regarding how bad we thought our leaders were. It followed a campaign in which a picture of someone alongside Washington's Capitol dome was tantamount to a smear and in which all but the most atavistic incumbents abstained from leaderly chest beating for fear it might mark them as "insiders." If we could have sent no one to Congress, we would have. Those whom we did send, needless to say, were the proponents...
...particular Harvard student) but in the end, it might very well be worthwhile. As a sophomore suffering through a slump of my own, I think maybe I'll defer my degree in Applied Math for a year or so, and pursue more relaxed studies. Maybe the Tokyo Dome has an opening for an usher. At the very least they have bass-ball...
...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...
...York Times's campaign coverage has spotted several such commercials. One features Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Montana) staring into the camera and saying. "In this town, the special interests are always out to get their hands on your money." As he speaks, a gray and grainy dome looms forebodingly on the screen...
Another has the dome opening up to expel the heads of congressmen who have voted to raise their own salaries. And yet another has a view of the dome under the large bold words, "Perk City...