Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...replied the Israeli leader. "We are a free people and we are not going to sign it unless we decide." In a separate meeting with senior Israeli deputies, Carter was chided for dealing as Laban did with the Patriarch Jacob in Genesis 29: 15-28, reneging on a bargain and increasing the price. Retorted Carter, an accomplished student of the Bible: "But look at what a beautiful wife Jacob...
...this is a fair estimate of the cost," said Senate RepubIlican Leader Howard Baker, "it's a real bargain." Declared House Republican Leader John Rhodes: "I don't think it'll be a problem." Insisted House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "It's a cheap price." Joked a White House aide: "See, we got it for you wholesale...
...scene, Proteus tries to rape Silvia in the woods only to be discovered by Valentine. Here Shakespeare resorts to implausible devices to save this play as comedy, because no sooner does Proteus make a lame apology than Valentine forgives him all, and offers to give him Silvia in the bargain. Deus ex Machina, in the form of the Duke, restores order, and all the right couples reunite happily, apparently suffering from collective amnesia as far as the past four acts are concerned...
...cape and pouncing about the stage like Batman, delivering his lines with Marvel Comics bravado. As comedy this bogus touch was great, but as Shakespeare it seemed rather strained and out of sorts with the prevailing traditionalism. Lacey apparently decided to cast continuity aside and go for a big, bargain-rate laugh with an expendable character...
Brown intrigued audiences with his unorthodox, sometimes obscure, opinions. He termed the Administration's energy and economic policies "a pretzel palace of confusion." A foe of nuclear power, Brown charged that the White House had made "a Faustian bargain with radioactive technology that will last for hundreds of thousands of years." Brown urged Americans to "join together, not in the sterile games of Metternich clones who want to play chess with the countries of this planet, but rather in a politics that recognizes that the central concerns are in protecting this planet and unifying the peoples of this earth...