Word: gridlocking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...political-action committees. PACs, which bundle money from people of similar special interests, engender candidates with narrow agendas that contribute to legislative gridlock. We should just get rid of PACs altogether. It will heal a lot of electoral ulcers and still permit individuals who care about issues to contribute on their...
Oscar has made his annual visitation, snarling Los Angeles traffic and creating celebrity gridlock in the nation's media. Although the ceremony stretched long, there were a few awards the Academy neglected to hand out. Here, then, are some of the presentations you didn...
...campaign law, has prime coverage in the news these days. Yet, even as the FBI and Congress launch their own investigations into the source of some of his funds, neither the Republicans nor the Democrats have put campaign finance reform on their agendas. This is one issue without any gridlock...
...Gridlock'd, an ambitious first film as writer-director by actor Vondie Curtis Hall, Shakur plays Spoon, a musician who resolves to say aloha to heroin after his singer girlfriend Cookie (radiant Thandie Newton) nearly dies from a drug overdose. The plot has Spoon and his nutsy pal Stretch (wild man Tim Roth) fleeing a Detroit drug lord (Curtis Hall) who's peeved that the lads stole his stash. But the real story is of the runaround Spoon and Stretch get from social-service employees who can't be bothered to help addicts get into rehab programs. This...
...wanna go out like that." Later he speaks one of the most introspective lines in the Afro-action canon: "Somehow I don't think this was my parents' dream for me." With Shakur's death, Hollywood lost part of its own dream to become a robust rainbow cinema. Gridlock'd gives a taste of what the movies are going to miss...