Word: bandwagoneers
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Cohen himself is one of the first to jump off the bandwagon. Baba's assertions, he says, "certainly corroborate my own conclusions about the after-effects...
Adhemar was intent on installing his own man, but Castello Branco picked out Abreu Sodré, a reform-minded São Paulo lawyer, for the Governor's job. Since the election was to be decided by the state legislature, where the revolution held a bandwagon majority, Adhemar's only hope was to woo the assemblymen's votes, and he went about it with all the fury that money and patronage could buy. He handed out 13,000 state jobs in five days, sometimes nominating as many as three people to the same position. And when Castello...
...takes greater pleasure, and profit, from the new craze than Los Angeles' Ed ("Big Daddy") Roth, the 275-lb. supply sergeant for Hell's Angels, who was first on the bandwagon, has sold 51,800 to date. Roth, who specializes in morbid-art decals for the hip trade (latest sample: a baby with sign reading "Born Dead"), sees the Iron Crosses as setting a whole new trend, and he has already followed up with an even newer vogue: plastic copies of the Wehrmacht iron helmet. Says he: "They really reach into a kid's deepest emotions." Beyond...
...member of Students for a Democratic Society, criticized the United States's role in Vietnam as a "colossal exploitation under the banner of pseudo-independence." Vu replied that the United States does not try to control Vietnamese politics. "Whatever government we have there, he United States jumps on the bandwagon," he said, adding, "This to me is a great compliment, not exploitation...
...fearless retreat, the intransigent com promise, the edged hedge and the artful fix. No belief is so rigid that it cannot be reversed, no enemy so hated that he cannot be embraced. Revolutions are accomplished by collect telegram, prosperity by printing more money, and politics is riding a bandwagon. Absolutely nothing in Brazil is absolute. As a Brazilian Congressman once announced: "My party stands neither for nor against this issue. Quite the contrary. And above...