Word: wilderness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...George Bush, or one of his cronies. It's not a Republican at all. It's L. Douglas Wilder, governor of Virginia, formal contender for the Democratic presidential nomination...
...Wilder, best known as the nation's first elected Black governor, defies the stereotype of a Black politician. He sounds more like Jack Kemp than he sounds like Jesse Jackson...
...Since Wilder was elected two years ago, he has slashed the state's $2 billion budget deficit not by raising taxes, but by cutting funds for education and social services...
...credit, Wilder jeopardized his popularity in his chief constituency by redistributing spending from wealthy Northern Virginia secondary schools to poorer rural areas. He has also fought the Virginia good-old-boy establishment to help minority-owned businesses...
ANOTHER YOU. A congenital liar (Gene Wilder) and his con man friend (Richard Pryor) get involved in an elaborate insurance scam. This comedy is complicated too -- but a big why-bother. By now these two gifted farceurs are doing it from memory, not from inspiration. The parts keep moving long after the machine is turned...