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...time Dukakis took office as Governor four years later, he had been through all the blarney and jokes about corrupt politics, and he meant to give it a truly last hurrah. His integrity was seen as righteousness, which helped defeat him in his 1978 re-election bid; but he got the job done. Said an omnidirectional fixer named Billy Masiello: "If any one man destroyed me, it was Governor Dukakis. When he came in there were no open hands. And the game was over...
...Blarney. Clonbrony was a fiasco that began when a band of poorly organized and inadequately armed Fenian nationalists tried to take the local police barracks, and ended with the attackers scattered into the trees and hunted down one by one. Blood was drawn but no honor satisfied. The participants became public heroes and martyrs, but privately their failure bred resentment, which thrived on blame, which in turn sought enemies within. They were not in short supply, given the tangle of feudal alliances and tribal betrayals that confounded the ideals of nationhood. The wounds of Clonbrony festered and spread violence...
...couple toured the scenic mountains of West Ireland on Friday, Oct. 16, they stopped at Blarney Castle, where Lynch kissed the legendary stone. "All I could think of was the market," he recalls, "as I swung backward, head down, into space, holding onto a steel bar for dear life." He hoped that the stone would give him luck rather than eloquence. But when he called the office that night, he learned that the Dow had plunged another 108.36 points. Worse, Magellan customers besieged Fidelity's 1,500 telephone operators with orders to redeem shares. Net withdrawals on Friday amounted...
WILLS DEFINES Reagan's appeal the same way Roland Barthes defined myth: "He is a durable daylight `bundle of meanings,"' Wills writes. "Reagan does not argue for American values; he embodies them." Gifted with his salesman father's Irish blarney and his sermonizing mother's penchant for moral crusading, Reagan articulates and seems to embody values Americans prize most. He can josh with an audience and then preach to them. Self-deprecating, humble, unpretentious, charming and--most importantly--a financial and social success, Reagan stands as the "fulfillment of America's ideal--Everyman suddenly put in charge of the nation...
...play in New York, and why did it run longer than two days? And most of all, why does Flanagan insist on showing off her bestockinged legs, when there is so little to show off? These questions, like many Irish mysteries, can only be answered by some form of blarney, of which there is also plenty in this film...