Word: cleanly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...standard door-to-door rap goes like this: "Good afternoon, my name is David Clark. I'm on the town council, and I'm running for state legislature." Then Clark locks eyes with his quarry. "I'm running as a Maine Clean Election candidate. I'm not asking for money; I'm asking for your vote." That makes Clark, in effect, a lab rat in a national experiment. He's one of 116 legislative candidates in Maine running with funds given under the state's Clean Elections Act. Passed by voters four years ago, it offers full public financing...
...Nationally, every major attempt to clean up campaign funding has been blocked for more than two decades. Meanwhile, George W. Bush, Al Gore and their political parties have hauled in a record $800 million and counting. But this is flinty Maine, which enacted the nation's first drug-price-control law, and gave Ross Perot his best showings...
...Gore at least tried for a little while to find his voice among young people, albeit in a half-hearted, vague sort of way, before returning to the more clean-cut and understandable concerns (Social Security, drug benefits) of the blue-hairs...
...prevailing climate of this collection is one of spare, sharp lines, big graphics and crisp edges. John loves Irving Penn, whose work looks clean and sober even when his subject was a New Guinea tribesman caked in ceremonial mud. He loves Robert Mapplethorpe, but without the whips and chains, which means the Mapplethorpe of laser-cut male torsos and tulips that loom before you like stage-lit pachyderms. These pictures were not collected by the inebriated stage floozy we used to know and love. They bear the mark of the studious Sir Elton John, a man buying things...
...part of my scientific philosophy, and my willingness to stick my neck out for what works," Hagelin says. "If I waver from that clean philosophy by not supporting transcendental meditation for political reasons, then my whole candidacy would be tainted...