Word: faithful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...both laugh at and empathize with those for whom "contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion." As Thornton writes, "For many art world insiders...concept-driven art is a kind of existential channel through which they bring meaning to their lives. It demands leaps of faith, but it rewards the believer with a sense of consequence...
...Hagan, who has been a Sunday school teacher and is a regular church-goer, fired back Wednesday. "This is a fabricated, pathetic ad," she said, "How dare she attack my faith. Is Elizabeth Dole that desperate to keep this Senate seat?" A day later, Hagan actually filed a defamation suit against Dole over the ad; the Republican's campaign responded by saying that it stands by the ad and that "This lawsuit is frivolous, and we will file a motion to dismiss." The most cutting comment on the entire flap came from high-octane Republican consultant Alex Castellanos, who said...
...Dole. Most polls have shown the race to be tight, though over the last month and a half Hagan has had an average of a three or four point lead. But the mere fact that Dole felt she had to launch an attack on her opponent's faith shows how daunting the trends against Republicans like Dole are this election year...
...Dole may yet pull out a victory despite the predictions of the pollsters. If she does, it will be hard to argue that it wasn't her attack on Hagan's faith that put her over the top. That may leave some observers, including eleven in-state newspapers, shaking their heads, but as the Charlotte Observer put it, "Somewhere, Jesse Helms is laughing and clapping in glee...
...with a midnight rally in Miami. At every other stop, McCain delivered his closing stump speech and took no questions. His tone at those events was fiercely negative, and his speech was filled with broadsides against Obama. "Senator Obama said the other day that his primary victory vindicated his faith in America," goes one of McCain's new lines, which questions Obama's patriotism. "My friends, my country has never had to prove anything...