Word: winging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...party's liberal wing has no place to go. So the president is targeting moderate voters, who might defect to Dole or an independent like Ross Perot...
After trailing Weld over the summer, a poll yesterday by The Boston Globe show Kerry now receiving support from 42 percent of Bay State voters, compared to Kerry's 38 percent. Milton resident Susan Gallagher, a right-wing third-party challenger, is pulling 2 percent...
Republicans didn't accept Morris any more than Democrats had. He got plenty of work--Trent Lott, now the Senate majority leader, talked him up in the Republican cloakroom, and Jesse Helms became his most right-wing client ever in 1990--but he was always valued, never trusted. Helms media man Alex Castellanos accused him of grabbing credit for a TV spot Castellanos had made, the infamous ad showing a pair of white hands crumpling a job-rejection notice while a voice said, "You needed that job...but they had to give it to a minority." A number of G.O.P...
...learned from a master: his uncle Al Cohn, the Democratic boss of the Bronx. Cohn had raised Gene like a son after Gene's natural father abandoned him. Cohn's youngest child was Roy Cohn, who grew up to be one of the most hated and feared right-wing power brokers of his generation. Another Morris cousin is the liberal cartoonist Jules Feiffer. The tug of opposing ideologies is encoded in his genes...
...ascends to the top spot when a Japanese airplane plunges into the U.S. Capitol, killing the President, his Cabinet and most members of Congress. Jack's the only guy left, and before he can say middle-class tax cut he has to start battling united Iran-Iraq forces, right-wing militia, a new worldwide plague, terrorists and aggressive TV journalists. "I don't know what to do," he says to himself in a typically Clancyesque moment of self-reflection. "Where's the manual, the training course for this...