Word: propped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Song wrote a feature article on "The Aftermath of Prop 187," which condemned the California proposition prohibiting illegal aliens from receiving social services as an excuse for racism...
Stop-motion animation, in which each character and prop made of clay or plastic must be adjusted 24 times for every second of film, is a technique that requires a masochistic devotion. Park has that and more: a storyteller's genius for incident and personality. Wallace--an airplane-headed, cheese-loving bachelor--and the silent Gromit share a village home, less as man and dog than as two longtime companions stolidly accepting of the other's quirks. They are, in a way, the definitive English odd couple...
Fighting back, casino companies have showered politicians with campaign contributions, hired former Governors and former U.S. attorneys as lobbyists, and poured money into television advertising. Yet "we're winning the hearts and minds of the countryside," claims Grey, whose favorite prop is a map with red, white and blue pushpins stuck into the 23 states where his National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling (NCALG) has won victories during the past two years. Only two states--Missouri and South Dakota--are marked with green pushpins to indicate a gambling...
...President a balanced budget. He vetoed it. We sent him tax cuts for families with children. Veto. We sent him welfare reform. Veto." But what happens to the Dole strategy when Clinton starts signing on the dotted line? A Dole campaign aide inadvertently points this out while trying to prop up his candidate. "[Dole] complains that Clinton is against welfare reform and against a balanced budget," says the aide. "If we had deals on each of those issues, he wouldn't be saying that." But Dole is counting on the desire of moderate lawmakers to get something done...
...Weisberg-Barry group--mindless motion can land you on a Greyhound to Newark--and I ended up getting the last seat on a prop plane to Dulles Airport. Bay Buchanan was on the flight, a picture of peacefulness with eyes closed on lift-off, knowing that below her Bob Dole and Lamar Alexander were grounded. Pat, who took off the night before, was already in South Carolina fulminating about Beltway betrayals...