Word: jim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Acting directly or through subordinates, this trio last week worked to spread a long-standing unsubstantiated rumor designed to humiliate new House Speaker Thomas Foley. Just as Foley was poised to take the gavel from departing Speaker Jim Wright's hand, a memo from the Republican National Committee was circulating to state party chairmen and G.O.P. Congressmen. Titled "Tom Foley: Out of the Liberal Closet," the memo compared his voting record with that of Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, an acknowledged homosexual. For days, an aide to Republican minority whip Newt Gingrich had been calling more than a dozen reporters...
...characters include a quirky contract killer seemingly borrowed from Elmore Leonard; and the underlying politics focuses as much on Pinochet's Chile as on the grievances of tribes whose ancestral graves are plundered for museum displays. But the deftly manipulated plot reunites Hillerman's detectives, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, lovelorn men who bury grief in stubborn pursuit of moral order. Their tracking skills and non-Anglo reasoning still prove vital to averting further crime. In place of breathtaking evocations of light and landscape, Hillerman touchingly portrays the outdoorsmen's dislocation amid subways, crowds and unneighborly indifference...
Moments before House Speaker Jim Wright launched into his resignation speech last week, his nemesis Newt Gingrich was seen merrily whistling through the halls of Congress. When Democrats and then Republicans stood to applaud Wright's denunciation of "mindless cannibalism," Gingrich rose to his feet only grudgingly, hands jammed into his pockets. Afterward, Gingrich, the minority whip and second-ranking Republican in Congress, shunned the crowds of waiting reporters. When he finally did surface, he bristled with his usual attack-dog rhetoric: "Jim Wright is forced out, and he blames the rest of us for his resignation. He has insulted...
...Democrats are responding with threats and name-calling. Wright's son, Jim Wright III, calls Gingrich "another Joe McCarthy." Says Arkansas Congressman Beryl Anthony, who wants Coelho's whip post: "The Republicans should be getting ready to see what this feels like. I think it will be very therapeutic for our members if it dragged out for a while...
What does America think of Jim Wright? Dan Quayle? The Exxon oil spill? Find out by turning to the comedy monologues of Carson, Leno, Letterman and Sajak...