Word: dragging
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...political drag-race is shaping up on the Info Highway. House Speaker Newt Gingrich today unveiled a system called "Thomas" (for Thomas Jefferson), which will provide online denizens easy access to congressional legislation. The system already has full texts of bills from the last Congress; by the end of the month, the Library of Congress will start to upload all new bills. The announcement by Gingrich follows President Clinton and Veep Al Gore's recent unveiling of aWhite House "web site"that provides access to information from many federal agencies. SaysTIME Science writer Philip Elmer-DeWitt"Al Gore and Clinton...
...funny, eye-rolling, knee-walking story of an incestuous Senate campaign in one of those nameless Southern states -- somewhere between South Carolina and Georgia, perhaps -- that turn up in political novels. Incest is not a metaphor here. When political consultant Matt Bonney engineers the testimony of three black drag queens who say they have had sex with Congressman Luke Bonney, who is the opponent of Matt's candidate and also happens to be Matt's brother, Luke makes it known that he will counter the deadly charge of homosexuality by confessing to a love affair with Congresswoman Lisa Bonney...
Vamps & Tramps is an apt title, and not just because, as the author writes, it "evokes the missing sexual personae of contemporary feminism" -- the drag queens and prostitutes who are the stars of her cosmology. The title also summarizes Paglia's method. Toss her a pop-cultural subject (Amy Fisher, Lorena Bobbitt), and she'll vamp on it, often brilliantly. Invoke her prim sisters in "the feminist establishment" (Anita Hill, Catharine MacKinnon), and she'll tramp on them with the Cuban heels of her rhetoric. Into any fray she bursts, a media Medusa, a Valkyrie for hire, Penthesilea fighting...
President Neil L. Rudenstine takes leave-hundreds of student's fall ill North House renamed Pforzheimer House-surely, a conspiracy is afoot! Someone is looking to drag Harvard down...
...alarming thing is, this could drag on for a considerable period of time," he said. "It's mess...