Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House and Democratic chiefs wanted to hold a simple up-or-down vote on the Rostenkowski bill, as well as on a Republican alternative that was given no chance of passage. At a G.O.P. strategy session, however, Whip Trent Lott of Mississippi urged, "Let's kill this snake before it gets out of the hole." On the House floor, Republicans moved to do just that by insisting that they be given the chance to vote on amendments. They were all for tax reform, they disingenuously avowed; they simply wanted the chance to make a few improvements...
...this is an optical effect--that of the telephoto lens, which replaces perspective recession with the layering of planes. Thiebaud keeps a telescope in his house, and prompts himself by looking through it. In paintings like Curved Intersection, 1979, streets rear up like the skycrapers that line them; pavements snake at terrific speed down the canvas; wires and yellow traffic lines cut and chop; everything seems to be on the point of falling, flaking or sliding into the Pacific, and the city becomes a meticulously ordered metaphor of anxiety. No one has ever painted this allegedly laid-back town...
...Gambino family. He is accused with nine other men of running a racket that stole autos and shipped them off for resale with forged registrations. His case will be followed next week by the racketeering trial of New York's Colombo family and its reputed boss, Carmine ("the Snake") Persico. Next month comes the first of two trials for "Matty the Horse" Ianniello and other purported members of the Genovese crime family on charges that include racketeering and extortion...
...medical school Wednesday, a employee reported the theft of jewelry valued at $1525 from the Channing Laboratory, police said. The woman told police that she removed her gold ring, gold bracelet, and snake bracelet and placed them on a shelf before she left the room to wash some glassware...
Also named after a human, Honey the snake carries the nickname that Sara's roommate's boyfriend called her. "We thought he would quit calling her Honey if we named the snake that," Sara explains...