Word: kliegs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buzz of succession talk was interrupted only for periodic "when will he go" bulletins on Wright. From the moment the klieg lights came on in the ethics committee hearing room on Tuesday morning, Democrats realized they had been living in a state of denial about the scandal. By nightfall negotiators for Wright and the committee were sounding each other out about a deal: Wright's resignation in exchange for the committee's agreement to drop some of the charges against him. By week's end it was clear that Wright was a goner, with no guarantee of clemency...
Strapped with such ideological baggage, Bork now must claim that as a Supreme Court justice he would at times feel bound to uphold decisions he criticized as an academic. Then again, his equivocations last week under the klieg lights could simply be the last refuge of a jurisprudential scoundrel seeking confirmation before a largely hostile Senate...
Though he has made a lot of money defending wayward Government employees from Richard Nixon on down, Attorney Leonard Garment, currently counsel for Robert McFarlane, passionately denounced those in official Washington who "make a career of grabbing the headlines via the mechanism of witness- stoning under the klieg lights...
...process begins again this week as klieg lights illuminate the solemn faces of 15 Congressmen and eleven Senators seated on a two-tiered dais draped in burgundy bunting, at the opening of a four-month public exploration of the Iran-contra affair. This is the same Senate Caucus Room where television cameras revealed Senator Joseph McCarthy as a snarling bully. It is where Richard Nixon's closest aides told lies in a vain effort to support the President's Watergate crimes...
Across the aisle of the bus, two cast members struggle to recall whether they had their last schnapps party in West Lafayette or East Lansing. It was definitely butterscotch schnapps. -- Could it have been South Bend? A night in Omaha (or was it Iowa City?) remains memorable for klieg lights and a good soda machine. The bus driver, meanwhile, wonders whether it was in Madison or Des Moines that he last had his vehicle washed...