Word: houstonize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Think you can't wait till Nov. 6 for the end of all the whiny negative ads, yawner debates and sloshing special-interest money? If you live in Dallas or Houston, tough luck. Things will only get worse after the election, as a handful of congressional races proceed into a political version of sudden-death overtime. Texas has been forced to stage its own set of December runoffs that could conceivably leave the rest of the nation wondering, for a full five weeks after the election, who will control the House...
...ruling invited a mob of contenders, credible and otherwise, to hop back into the race. And this was bad news for Democrats in an increasingly Republican state. Ken Bentsen, nephew of the state's most revered former Senator, has problems enough with the fact that his Houston district, marginally Democratic when he won it in 1992, tilted slightly Republican under the court-ordered redesign. To avoid a runoff, he must win a majority of the votes next month against no fewer than 10 opponents, ranging from a refinery worker backed by the Socialist Workers Party to a district judge favored...
...fate of the House still hangs in the balance. The Federal Election Commission has indicated that big donors who gave the maximum before the court ruling can start all over again for the runoffs. And every sort of special interest can be expected to descend on Dallas and Houston, airlifting in bales of contributions. "The amount of money that's going to be dumped into that state after the election will be awesome," says Elizabeth Wilner, who follows House races for the Cook Political Report. No doubt the next President will consider taking up temporary residence in the state...
...HOUSTON: Juan Garcia Abrego, once on the FBI's Most Wanted list for smuggling cocaine into the U.S., was convicted Wednesday on 22 counts of drug trafficking and money laundering. Jurors deliberated for 12 hours before finding Garcia Abrego guilty of masterminding the movement of almost 15 tons of cocaine into the United States and laundering $10.5 million. A sentence has not yet been handed down, but he is likely to face life imprisonment. Rumors are still flying about the extent to which Garcia Abrego managed to exploit a corrupt Mexican government to build a $2 billion a year drug...
Quidam tours California for the next year before heading to Denver, Dallas, Houston, New York City, Chicago and Atlanta. More buoyant than the 1994 Alegria, less self-consciously surreal than the '92 Saltimbanco, Quidam is prime, mature Cirque. It is beyond circus, beyond theater; it makes the incredible visible...