Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Scene of the 20th century's last great oil rush...
With Livingston out, the rush was on to fill the speakership. Even as the House was preparing to vote on impeachment and Livingston's corpse was still warm, G.O.P. leaders were just a few feet away tapping a successor. Dennis Hastert, a six-term Illinois Congressman, was the reluctant draft pick. "What's Dick going to do?" Hastert asked David Hobbs, chief of staff for majority leader Dick Armey, who was once considered a contender for the top spot. "I don't know," Hobbs answered. "What are you going to do?" Hastert responded, "I don't know." But before...
Malick's palette holds a precise orgy of colors; his camera moves like the sun's rush down a hill (a thrilling shot) that throws a fatal light on the men's position. Most of the G.I.s are doomed to have a past--iridescent memories of the blue Pacific or the wife back home--but no future. And Malick, like a god who made the world so lovely and life so harsh, ornaments their ordeal splendidly. The film is a gorgeous garland on an unknown soldier's grave...
...should be concerned entirely with making the most of our lives, finding the careers we can enjoy and securing a financial base so that if we do have families in the end, we can live with them comfortably. If Vogel is in such a rush to have kids, perhaps he should step back and realize all that he might be missing. JOSEPH N. JOHNSON
...first phase of campaign 2000 is less like a gold rush and more like a game of Clue. The most interesting news at www.BillBradley.com has much more to do with erstwhile rival Representative DICK GEPHARDT than with Bradley. The website, which last Friday announced that Bradley, as expected, was exploring a run for the 2000 Democratic nomination, buried a telling detail about the Democratic race. Near the top of a long list of Bradley backers and supporters was LOUIS B. SUSMAN, a Chicago investment banker, former fund raiser for TED KENNEDY and a longtime backer and moneyman for Gephardt. Aides...