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...giant killer in 1987, when he brought the ethics charges against Speaker Jim Wright that led to Wright's resignation two years later. That positioned Gingrich for his successful 1989 run for minority whip, despite the fact that the House Republican leadership supported the more moderate Edward Madigan of Illinois...
...Edward Madigan, R -- Illinois: $1,152 paid for a home security system, $517,000 for a charitable trust
...real danger to spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest, says Agriculture Secretary Edward Madigan, may not be loggers destroying habitats but interbreeding, which weakens bloodlines. Mating with barred owls means offspring aren't purebreds. Environmentalists say such matings are probably rare...
...inner glow, this most Broadwayesque of musicals leads the way. It has been a season of powerhouse new plays by August Wilson, Herb Gardner, Neil Simon, Brian Friel and Richard Nelson. It has been a season of movie- and TV-star glitter -- Jessica Lange, Alec Baldwin and Amy Madigan in A Streetcar Named Desire; Glenn Close, Gene Hackman and Richard Dreyfuss in Ariel Dorfman's politically inflamed Death and the Maiden; fast-rising Larry Fishburne, direct from the angry film Boyz N the Hood to Wilson's wistful Two Trains Running; Judd Hirsch; Alan Alda; Jane Alexander; Raul Julia; Gregory...
...there, yet feel calculated. Lange gives Blanche an initial strength that makes her breakdown all the more overpowering, and provides the few moments of real magic, describing the breakup of her family home and her hopeless marriage to a closeted homosexual. These scenes, however, are with Amy Madigan, able if stolid as her sister Stella, and Timothy Carhart, woefully miscast but game as the amiable lug Blanche beguiles. The real fault lies with director Gregory Mosher, who achieves the languorous pace of a New Orleans summer -- but not the steam. W.A.H...