Word: synching
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Where was Dole in all this? In and out of synch. As a Congressman in the early '60s he steered clear of racial politics. Dole supported the major civil rights bills, a political possibility for him because he represented a wheat-farming district that was less than 1% black, where racial friction was about as much of a problem as overcrowding. When the New Frontier evolved into the Great Society, he voted against some War on Poverty measures like public-housing subsidies and the bill that established Medicare. But his Small Government conservatism was open to the Big Government payout...
This surreally cliched plot is made even more hyperbolic by the fact that it is indeed sung. All the way through. In French. To the accompaniment of a synthetic, Esquivel-esque cocktail jazz. For the English-speaking viewer, the experience of watching auto mechanics lip-synch their way through so much ear-coating ultrasynth reaches that special level of pleasurableness which is just shy of unbearable...
...skillfully maneuvered for every job she's ever had. She arrived in the capital as a Great Society Democrat, became an independent during the Nixon years and converted to the Republican Party when she married Bob Dole. (Bedfellows make strange politics.) Her ideological transformations were perfectly in synch with each of her moves up the Washington hierarchy...
UNTIL ABOUT 1880, THE ACCEPTed epic subject of American painting was the Western frontier. By 1900 this had slid into nostalgia; it was no longer in synch with social reality. Most Americans lived in cities, and the myth of the West was just that: a myth, however durable. The real frontier was urban--a place of hitherto unimagined overcrowding, of cultural collision enforced by huge-scale immigration, of rapid change, where class ground against class like the imperfect rollers of a giant machine. Its epitome was New York City--Bagdad-on-the-Subway, as the writer O. Henry called...
Last week's State of the Union message was pieced together by Don Baer, Bruce Reed and Michael Waldman, senior aides ideologically in synch with Morris. The speech tapped into the less-from-Washington and more-from-ourselves rhetoric heard on the Republican campaign trail. Clinton declared that "the era of Big Government is over" and talked about family values, personal responsibility and neighborhood charity. "We're the ones who are pro-family, pro-community, pro-spirituality," wails G.O.P. pollster Frank Luntz, "and yet Bill Clinton is using the language and we're not." House Republicans are muttering that Clinton...