Word: gridlocking
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...Welcome to Gridlock 2000!" That's how Shirley MacLaine greeted the 1,000 or so guests gathered at an estate near Brentwood last Saturday to raise money for Hillary Clinton's New York Senate campaign. So long and thick was the line of cars waiting for the valet that actor Johnathon Schaech and his date abandoned their limo and hoofed it up the hill, following the lead of an MTV executive and a couple of Hillary's press representatives. The event itself began with a lot of head-turning. There's Brad and Jennifer! There's John Travolta! There...
...convention so muscle-bound with money. At the downtown hotels, there were limos too long to turn into the oval drives. At the airport, there was Learjet gridlock. Everywhere there was Representative Tom DeLay, House Republican whip, chief money pumper and master of the revels, who spent the week stroking donors in a series of private vintage railway cars, which just happened to be the defining perk of the robber barons of the last Gilded...
Congress and the White House are so dependent on special-interest campaign contributions and so mired in partisan gridlock, plaintiffs' lawyers say, that it is often impossible to get anything done there. Exhibit A is Congress's failure to act on the Patients' Bill of Rights before it fled Washington for its summer recess. Ask Scruggs if trial lawyers are trying to run America, and he doesn't bother to deny it. "Somebody's got to do it," he says, laughing...
Schroeder: One plus is that we've had political gridlock over the past eight years. It actually has proved to be a good thing, since it has stopped the government from interfering with growth in the economy...
...after another: Bertolucci, Ivory, Neil Jordan (Interview with the Vampire) and Jonathan Demme (Beloved). Her co-stars have ranged from Nolte in Jefferson ("F______ funny. What a toilet mouth," she says, again citing a quality she obviously admires in her leading men) to the late rapper Tupac Shakur in Gridlock'd ("I was rude to him. 'What's that tattoo?' I'd ask. We had a flirty-rude relationship...