Word: mads
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Finally Alexander Hamilton, who deeply distrusted Burr, persuaded enough Federalists to go to Jefferson--"I trust," he said, "the Federalists will not finally be so mad as to vote for Burr"--that the House at last elected Jefferson on the 36th ballot. (Four years later, Burr killed Hamilton in a duel.) The crisis of 1800 led to reform: the 12th Amendment required that the Electoral College must thereafter vote separately for President and Vice President...
Down in Austin, Rove and polling analyst Matthew Dowd were in their adjacent offices, glued to their computers and telephones. "They were like mad scientists with those calculators," says media strategist Mark McKinnon. "They were punching them so hard and so fast, it sounded like a machine gun." At various points one of them would shout that they were a thousand votes down or a thousand votes up. "We lived and died a thousand times tonight," said McKinnon. Spectators hovered outside Rove's office, looking in through a glass window. "We were all standing around like expectant fathers," says...
...Down in Austin, Rove and polling analyst Matthew Dowd were in their adjacent offices, glued to their computers and telephones. "They were like mad scientists with those calculators," says media strategist Mark McKinnon. "They were punching them so hard and so fast it sounded like a machine gun." At various points one of them would shout that they were a thousand votes down or a thousand votes up. "We lived and died a thousand times tonight," said McKinnon. Spectators hovered outside Rove's office, looking in through a glass window. "We were all standing around like expectant fathers," says...
...Finally Alexander Hamilton, who deeply distrusted Burr, persuaded enough Federalists to go to Jefferson - "I trust," he said, "the Federalists will not finally be so mad as to vote for Burr" - that the House at last elected Jefferson on the 36th ballot. (Four years later, Burr killed Hamilton in a duel.) The crisis of 1800 led to reform: the 12th Amendment required that the electoral college must thereafter vote separately for president and vice president...
...most unusual, and infinitely rewatchable, movies are a trio of no-budget wonders that belong in the video collection of any serious student of outré cinema. "The Astro Zombies" (1968), coscripted by "M*A*S*H"'s Wayne Rogers, stars John Carradine a - natch - a mad scientist, and Tura Satana as a dragon lady criminal mastermind. Tura is one of many individuals looking to snatch Carradine's secret of bringing cadavers back to life with solar energy (don't ask). The horrendous creatures he resurrects are incarnated by stunt men wearing dimestore skull masks, so a good time...