Word: arounder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Only the size of cartoonists' egos. Nowadays political commentary, especially satirical commentary, is usually ink wasted. Eighty years ago that wasn't the case. At that time a political cartoonist could turn an election around. Before TV, before movies and radio, a drawing of a weasel with the Governor's name on his butt went a long way in a public's imagination. Our political power today is illusionary. A Johnny Carson monologue is today's real influence brokerage...
Arriving flights were turned back around at the Bucharest airport. Bulgarian TV said travelers were held in trains for hours before being sent back by Romanian border guards...
...government may be sidelined into irrelevancy as rival military groups battle it out. Says a young officer who backs the government: "I think Cory will have to be hard on the rebels." But to balance out the harshness, he says, "she must also be hard on the corrupt politicians around...
...Only a respite from the strains of the competition as well as an opportunity to address their internal problems and modernize their system. That is what Gorbachev and the people around him are hoping to accomplish...
French analyst Dominique Moisi, co-founder of the Paris-based French Institute for International Relations, agreed. On recent visits to Moscow, he said, he was struck by gathering popular pessimism. Said Moisi: "The elite around Gorbachev sound like the aristocrats on the eve of the French Revolution. Even among the most devout Gorbachev supporters hopes have been replaced by fears...