Word: rossing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...politics have led to the creation of a cynicism industry, led by talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, whose book, See, I Told You So, continues to top the bestseller lists. Limbaugh feeds off this growing disillusionment with government to promote himself. His tactics are not unlike those of Ross Perot. (Expect him to share a ticket with Perot...
...Zhirinovsky's appeal was read much like the maverick presidential challenge mounted by Ross Perot in 1992. Zhirinovsky, too, campaigned skillfully as an outsider. He slung verbal Molotov cocktails at a system tainted by gridlock and inefficiency. And he aimed right at Russians' pocketbooks, denouncing the economic reforms that have hiked the price of metro tickets from five kopeks to 30 rubles, pushed middle-income households toward the poverty level and withheld wages from such key constituencies as the coal miners. But like the U.S. billionaire, Zhirinovsky had far more to offer in the way of firebrand bombast than coherent...
...buddy H. Ross, for the airtime...
Then, for the next hour, the talk show professor worked the debate less like a neutral moderator and more like Larry King peppering Ross Perot and Vice President Al Gore '69 on the North American Free Trade Agreement (though to be fair, Sandel was far more restrained than king...
...Marat (Ross Benjamin) is shown lying in his tub as revolution tears up the countryside. Charlotte Corday (Winsome Brown) attempts to assassinate him, and the Marquis constantly drops down from his director's chair to challenge Marat's understanding of and dedication to the Revolution. The Marquis clearly has the upper hand here: it is he who is fully dressed and of strong body, whereas Marat lies rotting in a blood-stained bath; it is he who controls the actions of his cast; and it is he who has written the script...