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Word: mudfest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1994-1994
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...never becomes clear which of these abominations is true. Perhaps all of them are, as seemed to be the case in the recent Virginia mudfest between Oliver North and Charles Robb. The author, a political consultant, produces muck of a good, gooey consistency and characters who chuck it at each other with vigor. The best and most rascally is Matt's candidate, Governor Solomon Jawinski, a fat, Polish-Jewish carpetbagger from Detroit who drives an old El Dorado convertible and knows how to talk redneck. In a TV debate he points out that his opponent is too lean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Flack Attack | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

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