Word: oiled
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...election; if not he may challenge Feinstein in the year 2000. Says TIME Los Angeles contributor Martha Smilgis, who covered the campaign: "He's just a sore loser. He lost almost $30 million of his own money. But keep in mind that his father (a Texas oil baron) is worth $600 to $700 million, and he wants his son to be President."Post your opinion on theElection '94bulletin board...
...overreach, Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen is an obvious target for takeoffs of all sorts. The latest is Das Barbecu, which arrived last week off-Broadway after having been developed in several regional theater productions. Concentrating on the last opera, Gotterdammerung, the show is set in oil-rich Texas. Not a bad idea: like Valhalla, Texas was built by the iron whim of wealthy men. Jim Luigs, who wrote the book and lyrics, sees the gods as feuding, singing cowboys. Five exceedingly busy people manage to rush through 30 parts...
...Virginia, whose constituency is the heart of tobacco-growing country, reassured cigarette-company executives that + they need not fear any further embarrassing hearings or new antismoking laws when he takes over Energy and Commerce's health subcommittee. And at a postelection barbecue at a German beer garden in Austin, oil and gas producers were drooling in their steins at the prospect of Texas Representative Bill Archer's taking charge of the Ways and Means Committee, which writes tax laws for the petroleum industry. Barry Williamson, a Texas Republican official at the barbeque, exulted that since last Tuesday, "the air smells...
...power. After his people had trashed the White House, he retained three servants who had worked for his elitist predecessor -- a French chef, a steward and a butler -- and began serving the finest clarets at dinner. He also hired a painter, who promptly began immortalizing his subject in heroic oil portraits. The rest is history...
...slogan -- "Bring Back the Grownups" -- but since their best credentials are outside the realm of domestic politics, they might not triumph unless a diplomatic or military crisis causes the party to value their foreign policy experience more highly. "Maybe the Islamic fundamentalists could take over the Middle East oil fields," jokes a Cheney friend, "or Russia's elections could be pushed up before the scheduled June 1996 date, and Zhirinovsky could...