Word: whitewash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Marks, who dismisses five ballot infractions in his own camp as a misunderstanding, charges Stinson with massive election fraud. Furthermore, Marks says an ensuing "whitewash" involved the state's entire Democratic establishment. "Sadly, Philadelphia has a history of political corruption on the part of the Democrats," says Marks. Stinson denies that he stole the election, and the Democrats have returned fire. "This is bwhen Marks criticizes the courts for good, honest decisions," declares senate majority leader Bill Lincoln...
Three vagrant takes on the same tale: this isn't Rashomon, it's Trashomon. NBC, first with the most, painted Fisher's version in bold strokes, with no whitewash, and Noelle Parker was a fine Amy. ABC had the hottest sex, courtesy of a sulky, smoldering Drew Barrymore. Poor CBS had to hatch a Fatal Attraction plot without the sex, since Joey has never admitted to doing anything interesting. But the real subject of the Amy-thon was the Long Island accent and attitude -- Brooklyn with flashier threads. Try this at school, kids: "Din I awrea'y tell...
...whitewashes," said Walsh, raising his voice. "When it comes to me, everything's an open book, but when it comes to them, everything's a whitewash," said Walsh...
Walsh characterized the council's rejection of his amendment as "gutless," and as "one huge, large whitewash...
...Lincoln's combination of fixed values and shifting tactics: "He loved to repeat that slavery was intolerable while he tolerated it, and to prove that something ought to be done while it was impossible to do it. This was probably very bewildering to his brother politicians, for politicians always whitewash what they do not destroy. But, for all that, this inconsistency beat the politicians at their own game, and this abstracted logic proved most practical after all. For, when the chance did come to do something, there was no doubt about the thing to be done. The thunderbolt fell from...