Word: patly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much of an amateur's game. The career support staff, along with lobbyists and bureaucrats, may run roughshod over green legislators. Furthermore, many states would lose the clout of established Representatives and Senators, the hoary politicos whose years of service guarantee them influence and chairmanships of committees. Says Pat Schroeder, the 10-term Representative from Colorado: "Four states have half the votes in Congress. A state with only six votes and no seniority isn't going to get far. Six votes won't stop a speeding train. I guess people just don't understand...
...that's not for lack of trying. Twenty years ago, who would have imagined that H. Ross Perot, then a 44-year-old founder of a computer-software company, would win 19% of the vote as a third-party candidate in the 1992 election? George Bush-nemesis Pat Buchanan, a 35-year-old Nixon aide, made the 1974 list, as did presidential aspirants Jack Kemp, then 38 and a two-term Congressman, and Joseph Biden, at 31, the Senate's youngest member. As for perennial presidential almost-aspirant William Bradley, who in '74 was 30 years old and still...
...pleasure to hear two such intelligent and articulate individuals discussing the phenomenon of exile and divided identities. One is reminded of Latin American intellectuals during the 1960s and 1970s. However, the film's conceit--two boyhood friends reuniting to explore their bisected country--is a tad pat. Chrysanthou and Kizilyurek's devotion to the structured format of their meeting, and the intellectualizing of the issues presented detract from the emotional immediacy of the film...
...think she intended to harm him," said Pat Durkan, the Channel 56 camera operator who filmed the altercation. "I think she was frustrated...
...yeah. Right. And I'm supposed to pay $60 so that I can make Shaq run around? For that much money, the final opponent in the game had better be John Starks. Or Mark Eaton. Or better yet, a three-armed Pat Riley throwing flaming grease balls...