Word: whips
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...show is in your face. Literally. At the end, when the passengers are saved in an anti-climatic moment, a champagne bottle is popped open. At the performance I attended, a few audience members got wet. When the three women who serve as the sea whip sheets at the boat members to affect a storm, the sheets came dangerously close to slapping me in the face. These three women (Anatavia Marie Brown, Ji-Ho Lee, and Bianca Hovey) played their parts with a pokerface and really wailed the cast members during the "storm...
Mississippi GOP Sen. Trent Lott, an ideological ally of future House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and South Dakota Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle, a moderate peacemaker, won election to key Senate posts today, each by a one- vote margin. Lott became Senate GOP Whip, unseating veteran Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), incoming Majority Leader Robert Dole's right-hand man, and giving more conservative Republicans a strong grip on the Senate leadership. In winning thepost of Democratic leader, Daschle edged the more combative Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), 24-23, suggesting a philosophical mismatch with a hard-line Democratic House minority under Rep. Richard...
...that, after today's vote, may swerve hard to the left. "Our mission is to represent workers, middle income families, the poor families of our country," Gephardt told reporters after the secret ballot. "I also look forward to winning the House back in 1996." His right-hand man, Democratic whip Rep. David Bonior of Michigan, likewise won out over Texas conservative Charlie Stenholm. TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty says the return of Gephardt, who becomes the senior congressional Democrat with Speaker Tom Foley's re-election defeat, puts his party in the same combative position the GOP has been...
...always been Miami's fault. And this year, the Huskers are going to whip them good, and bring home the title...
...principal House sponsor of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 and a key player in the House's passage of the 1990 Clean Air Act. Since his election to the House in 1974, he has served as the House Democratic Whip at Large and as a member of the Democratic Leadership Council...