Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Normally in an election the early cliches are replaced by newer cliches, but not this time. The good economy denied the challenger the traction he needed to move forward. As for Dole's age, the best political commentary I heard all year came one morning on C-SPAN during the Republican Convention in San Diego. An elderly woman called in to say why she couldn't back Dole. I am his age, she said, and people our age--they shouldn't let us drive! Have you seen us on the highway? They shouldn't give us licenses...
...hour-long discussion and subsequent town hall meeting were broadcast live by C-Span...
...looking from space "like strings of sparkling diamonds," and alluding to Antaeus, the giant in Greek mythology whose strength was replenished when he touched the ground. Then Dole was trapped by that bridge metaphor. It was hardly out of Dole's mouth before Clinton made it a two-way span, with himself poised at the last exit before the 21st century. Dole meanwhile was left behind in a horse and buggy on a rickety wooden model. Most people just wanted to make a U-turn, get off and take the tunnel...
Running against a popular incumbent who reviles the Contract with America, Uldrich combines G.O.P. policy with his own detailed agenda. He would spare Social Security and Medicare, for example, but cut expenditures by raising the age of retirement in proportion to the increasing life-span. He supports tax policies that reward savings and investment, and the Bipartisan Clean Congress Act, which limits PAC contributions...
This Town is an outrageous and well-constructed political parody by Sidney Blumenthal, the special political correspondent for The New Yorker and long-time Washington observer. But before you race to catch the performance on C-SPAN (where the show will in fact be aired) you must be warned of one thing: this is a play of politicos, by politicos, and for politicos. The Gov Jocks and "in the loop" political junkies among us will chuckle with knowing recognition when faced with Blumenthal's expose of the inner workings of the Washington power game. But after two hours of this...