Word: maverickly
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...true Senate maverick died Thursday, when 90-year-old William Proxmire, who represented Wisconsin from 1957 to 1988, finally succumbed to the ravages of Alzheimer's. It was particularly sad news for me, having worked as a legislative assistant to the senator during his last four years in office. In this age of blow-dried lawmakers whose tenure depends on their ability to raise millions of dollars in campaign funds, "Prox" was an oddity-one unlikely ever to be replicated, even by such latter-day mavericks as Senator John McCain...
...Wisconsin after determining it represented the best opportunity for a newcomer to break into politics. After three failed runs for governor, he finally was elected in 1957 to the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Joe McCarthy. The first-term Democrat almost immediately identified himself as a maverick, angering the chamber's legislative barons and successive administrations by opposing wasteful programs...
...maverick Endoh aims to try something new for each project. In the case of Natural Strips II, a glass house completed this year, Endoh had a company that usually makes ducts for industrial plants twist a large iron plate and used the result as a column in the center of the house. The column works not only as a beautiful objet d'art but also as blinds for the bathroom and for the dressing room of the boutique on the ground floor...
Thompson Room, Barker Center. Oct. 25-27, from 4:00 until 5:30 p.m. Melvin Van Peebles, the maverick filmmaker best known as the writer, director and star of “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” will be delivering this semester’s Alain LeRoy Locke Lectures. The LeRoy lecture series is co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, the Department of African and African American Studies, and Basic Civitas Books (a division of the Perseus Books Group). They are held in honor of the Harlem Renaissance...
Crack, flop, hit, nuts, pot-committed. Limp, leak, house, draw, gun-shot straight. It’s not spoken word and far from Dr. Seuss; say hello to the parlance of poker. No longer resigned to the backrooms of Western saloons (very smoky, very Maverick, always black and white) or Friday nights with the boys (beer, bets, and babe talk), it seems everyone is speaking the colloquialism of cards...