Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stunning victory for a man who, just four years ago, was sentenced to six months in prison for possession of cocaine. Former Washington mayor Marion Barry astonished even his most fervent supporters by trouncing city council member John Ray and incumbent mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly in the Democratic mayoral primary. Kelly, who won four years ago as a reformer in the wake of Barry's arrest, did not win a single precinct...
...former Washington Mayor Marion Barry is all but certain to run the District of Columbia again after drawing 47 percent of the vote in yesterday's Democratic mayoral primary. City councilman John Ray, the Establishment candidate, got 37 percent, and beleaguered Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly straggled in with a mere 13 percent. How did Barry do it? "It's clear that he won it by registering an unprecedented number of voters in southeast Washington, in the poorest neighborhoods," says TIME Washington correspondent James Carney. Many of this crowd had never voted before. Barry's return may intensify middle-class flight...
With enough voters so faithful as these, Barry, 58, may achieve one of the most improbable political comebacks in U.S. history. A Washington Post poll last week showed him in a statistical dead heat -- 34% to 33% -- with city councilman John Ray in a three-way contest to win the Sept. 13 Democratic primary, where elections in Washington are usually decided. Well behind both Barry and Ray was incumbent Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly, with just 14% support...
...code violations may delay the opening of many D.C. public schools; and Congress, which acts as overseer to the D.C. government, is threatening to take action on the city's chronic budget deficit. Having soured on Kelly, those who would vote for anyone but Barry are turning increasingly to Ray, a bland 15-year veteran of the city council and a perennial runner-up in mayoral elections. His campaign has focused largely on the promise to restore the city's tattered image and improve its relations with Congress...
Perhaps responsive to this, Ray Liotta, who mastered the guise of the Irish-turned-Italian Mafioso in "Goodfellas," was also nothing extraordinary. He plays the recently widowed Manny Singer who is busily trying to piece his life back together after his wife's death. Symbolic of the glazed-over, plastic, "Leave It to Beaver"-esque tone of this film, Manny Singer writes the music and lyrics for toy company advertisements. Perhaps you've always wondered who did this sort of thing, but the 1950,s setting makes this film cheesy, alleviating the more apparent, and perhaps interesting, struggle for racial...