Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason: enlightened self-interest. With pollsters and even donors telling party leaders they had better find a horse other than the President's troubles to ride, yet another plea for healing was in order. The first step in that direction is changing the public face of the GOP from Gingrich and Hyde to the more palatable (and focus-grouped) Jennifer Dunn and Steve Largent. Following the speech, the two rising young stars gave a bright and shiny infomercial of a Republican response that did get across the message that Republicans are for reconciliation. Sort of. So let the healing begin...
...dignified process and the option of voting to censure Clinton when it's over. The White House, meanwhile, would avoid the kind of lengthy regurgitation of the evidence that could cause a slow erosion of support among the dozen Senate Democrats who stand between Clinton and an early helicopter ride out of town...
Within three weeks, Stokes was feeling better and now, at 58, he is back at work on a normal, nitroglycerine-free routine. "I ride horses and I run tractors," he says. "You have to be in pretty good shape to do what I do." As it turned out, all 16 heart patients in Isner's trial showed improvement, and six are entirely free of pain...
...film begins with a sweeping seven-minute prologue that evokes the misery of the slaves, the grandeur of the Egyptian empire and the infant Moses' famous basket ride on the Nile, until he is rescued by the Pharaoh's wife. In the Bible, Moses is rescued by Pharaoh's daughter, but the filmmakers decided a close relationship between Pharaoh's son Rameses and an adopted brother Moses would be more compelling than their interacting as uncle and nephew. Some other dramatic devices were also invented. "We have 88 minutes to tell 70 years in the life of Moses," says Katzenberg...
...this guy John Lasseter? At 41, with a chubby face and round wire-rimmed glasses, he looks like the overgrown kid he is at heart. He's just silly enough to ride a motorized hot dog to a Hollywood premiere. His offices at Pixar's animation studios in Point Richmond, outside San Francisco, are host to a veritable convention of Buzz and Woody toys: Mech Warrior Buzz, Space Sheriff Woody, Space Claw Buzz, Snake Whippin' Woody. They're not just props: Lasseter checks each toy tied in to Pixar's films. "He plays as hard as he works," laughs Lasseter...