Word: albatross
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...Philippine Foreign Minister Narciso Ramos and Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak agreed to a "cooling off period," to last indefinitely, or at least, the Malaysians hoped, until after the Philippine national elections next year. Ramos made it clear that the agreement could prove a personal albatross: "It hangs around my neck. I expect to be criticized when I get back. In fact, I may be roasted alive." The Philippine government could repudiate Ramos' commitment at Djakarta, but only at the price of withdrawing from ASEAN...
...albatross was hatched by George Birnbaum and Joshua Rubins, porcine roommates who look like they sat around Quincy House giggling over lines like, "The best is yet to come...and I want to be there when he does." Rubins fared somewhat better with the lyrics...
...opening curtain finds Scuba Duba's hero holding a huge scythe in the middle of a Riviera chateau draw ing room. Harold Wonder (Jerry Orbach) has an albatross complex and a symbolic knife at his throat. While his two children lie asleep upstairs, his wife is out cuckolding him with a Negro skin-diver, or so he thinks. Harold, in a skull-popping panic, half-dials phones, swigs champagne from a bottle, runs to the door with his scythe and roars out bloody maledictions on "the Goddamn spade frogman." In a performance marvelously sustained at the pitch of brilliance...
...Poor Barbara Garson! Now that the critics have roasted MacBird into a gilt-edged annuity, she will have to reconcile herself to fame and a fat purse. That's a hell of an albatross to hang on a fully committed protester. If that's what...
...long enough to produce classics. The very quality of daring that at the moment makes them so tempting may yet be their downfall: a classic evening gown is good for seasons on end; already the sequined evening suit is so conspicuous that it has begun to hang like an albatross by the third wearing...