Word: pryor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time to recover after it sent its prized leader Jeff Davis to the U.S. Senate in 1907, only to have him laughed into fecklessness by a more sophisticated audience. The state has tried to send more presentable leaders to Washington ever since -- men like Fulbright, Dale Bumpers and David Pryor...
...More, he had their affection; not just his talent but his boyish good nature won him that. And because comic charisma radiated through the characters he played on SNL, Murphy was able to jump from TV-sketch artist to big-screen draw. He took two roles Richard Pryor had rejected, in 48 HRS. and Trading Places, and overtook Pryor as the top black film star. He stepped into a Sylvester Stallone part, in Beverly Hills Cop, and strutted to the top of the world. Cop II was even bigger. Raw, a concert film, and Coming to America cemented his grand...
...decline was subtle: not the incendiary self-destruction of a Pryor -- no drug overdose for Eddie, not even a sex scandal -- just the makings of the sour dissolution of the elder Elvis, a star Murphy much admired. He put on weight and acted like a jerk. Cockiness shaded into arrogance. He seemed to guest-star in his own films (Harlem Nights, Another 48 HRS.), touring them with the grudging ennui of a celebrity at a Kiwanis gig somebody had booked for him. The star was now as remote as Alpha Centauri. A squadron of bodyguards kept him cocooned in satiety...
Iowa Congressman Jim Leach sees possible deadlock in the House and weird maneuvering in the Senate. "The chemistry cannot be understood in advance," he warns. Arkansas Senator David Pryor fears a "constitutional crisis" in which a discredited Congress would be seen as usurping the voters' will. That happened after the 1824 election, when the House chose John Quincy Adams over Andrew Jackson in a four-way contest. As recently as 1968, when George Wallace ran as an independent, the country had a close call. Had Wallace won about 60,000 more votes in three states, neither Richard Nixon nor Hubert...
Even in the absence of an important independent candidate, the vagaries of the Electoral College system permit the victory of a nominee who runs second in the popular vote. That occurred in 1888 and almost happened again in 1976. Because Perot's effort has focused attention on the process, Pryor has reintroduced a constitutional amendment providing for popular election of the President and Vice President. The House approved that proposal in 1969, but the Senate quashed it. Today's lawmakers, and the country at large, may pay a high price for that rejection next January...