Word: overridden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This novel has pretensions, but they are overridden by Allende's riproaring girl's adventure story. In fact, the book exemplifies the new feminist approach by plugging late 20th century cultural attitudes into a spacious 19th century literary vehicle. Like Una Spencer, Eliza Sommers makes her way in the world by cross-dressing. She befriends a Chinese healer who becomes her confidant, her partner in an alternative-medicine practice and eventually her soul mate for life. Throughout it all, Allende projects a woman's point of view with confidence, control and an expansive definition of romance as a fact...
...most famous namesake is the Hyde amendment banning federal funding of most Medicaid abortions--and is too eager to do Newt Gingrich's bidding. "It's just not worked out," Frank says of Hyde's tenure in the Starr-report era. "Whether it's because the Republican leadership has overridden him or what, I don't know, but Henry has not been bipartisan...
...billion; today, the total costs are estimated at $8 billion, making it the largest publicly funded project in the United States today. In 1987, then-President Ronald W. Reagan cited the project as an example of pork-barrel spending and vetoed federal funding for it--but the veto was overridden thanks to the enormous clout of the Commonwealth's Democratic heavy-weights on Capitol Hill, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 and the late Speaker of the House Thomas M. "Tip" O'Neill...
...these areas had declared independence; in Somalia there was no government left to tell anyone to stay out. Kosovo, however, has been part of Serbia for centuries; for all its current Albanian majority, Serbs regard it as the cradle of their nationhood. To Bush and others, that consideration is overridden by the danger that Serbian aggression in Kosovo could ignite a general war drawing in Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria and even Turkey...
...hardy among us weathered it through to Clinton's speech. By now, the remaining viewers were in a variety of exhausted poses, and lines of argument reached me from all directions: "And I'm saying the anti-incumbency factor has overridden, right, like, completely removed coattails from the Clinton surge...how can they say that Cuomo is worse than Clinton. The man is a seer, he is just the greatest...And our chart shows that white protestants with 2.4 kids and severe dyspepsia...So what are you doing on Friday night?...I've always loved you, you know that. Always...