Word: funke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entered Washington in glory last year is looking anything but triumphant now. With its members divided among themselves, cranky about their presumptive presidential nominee and nervously entertaining the thought that their House majority might not survive November, Republicans are going through what even House Speaker Newt Gingrich calls a "funk...
...This funk starts at the top. Bob Dole's campaign has yet to find its feet or its voice. His strategy of running for President by running the Senate has hit up against the White House's strategy, which consists in part of letting congressional Republicans expose themselves in public while Clinton says, "Tsk, tsk." Right now it's working. In recent weeks the President's lead over Dole in the polls has been growing about 2 points a week; the gap is now 14 points...
Amid the mounting gloom, Newt Gingrich remains stymied. The man who energized House Republicans has been in his own private funk since January, after Clinton refused to do a balanced-budget deal on G.O.P. terms and Gingrich had no fallback plan ready. When Gingrich inches into the spotlight lately, it's under the cover of lovable critters. To mark Earth Day last Monday he appeared at the Atlanta zoo with an African elephant. He ended the week on the Tonight Show, cradling a piglet. If it's all a bit Marlin Perkins, esteemed gray eminence of Wild Kingdom...
Corinne E. Funk's last column of the year will appear during Reading Period...
Something familiar, something to fool ya, something for everyone: the musical is back. In the next week Broadway will welcome three new ones: the Pulitzer-prizewinning Rent, the movie-based Big and the tap-a-thon Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk. Meanwhile, there's a pair of revivals--A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and The King and I--to prove Broadway can still dance, sing, touch the heart and crack the best old jokes...