Word: propped
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...retrospect, however, the fit between Bob Dole and the anti-affirmative-action cause was not a natural one. Prop. 209 came from outside the normal political channels--and those are the channels where Dole has spent his whole career. Prop. 209 is really a by-product of the political-correctness wars in universities. These spawned an anti-p.c. organization called the National Association of Scholars, through which two academics, Glynn Custred and Thomas Wood, met. Custred and Wood had separately got the idea of an abolish-affirmative-action ballot initiative, and in 1991 they joined forces and began actively...
Meanwhile, however, the initiative's backers were having trouble gathering enough petitions to get it on the ballot; California initiatives have become a business, and no initiative since Prop. 13 has succeeded without the help of an expensive signature-gathering firm. Republican powers in Sacramento and Washington came in at the last minute with the money to hire professionals and save the initiative. Their motive was practical: the initiative looked as if it might be popular enough to pull Republican candidates (including the presidential one) to victory...
...irony as he retorts to Nick's accusation: "Because you're going to hump Martha, I'm disgusting?" The only break in Ayres' intensity occurred in the scene when George shoots Martha with what seems at first to be a shotgun, but releases only an umbrella; because of prop difficulties, Ayres had to shake the gun and quickly urge the gag out of the barrel--not quite the passionate moment it was supposed...
...actor in a metallic suit. Briefly, what happens is this: as the poem is heard on the sound track--mixed and looped, sped up and slowed down, intermingled with classical music, rock, and a pounding techno beat--Erik Amblad performs a highly elaborate pantomime, in which his only prop is a large red chair...
MARIJUANA PASSED Prop. 215, California--Allows use of marijuana for medical purposes...