Word: bloodlessness
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...with the fantasy heroines, who at first had seemed so abused but who did work at difficult jobs, solve problems and bring criminals (usually men) to justice. "They saw three attractive ladies beating up bad guys," says Cheryl Ladd, who replaced Fawcett after the first season. "But it was bloodless and harmless. We were very feminine while karate-chopping our way through life...
François Mitterrand needed a moderate Premier who could reassure a nation still caught uneasily between jubilation and the jitters over the novelty of a Socialist in the Elysée Palace. But he could not accept another bloodless technocrat of the kind that he had criticized in the Giscard regime. He needed a political figure with a popular touch. No one fit that description better than Pierre Mauroy, 52. The big (6 ft. 2 in.) burly mayor of the northern industrial center of Lille, Mauroy (pronounced Mawr-wah) is an archetypal man of the north, pragmatic, hardworking...
...federal budget cuts proposed by the President look crisp and bloodless when summarized in tidy charts and statistical tables, but it is a very long way from the Latinate language of program descriptions to the bumpy realities of people and places those Washington moneys touch. Though inevitably some were born of boondoggling and hornswoggling in the give and take of American politics, most federal programs were conceived with the best of intentions, created to advance goals on which much of America agreed. To feed the hungry. To heal the sick. To train the jobless. To enable the nation...
...dream. It had never been, for them, a goal, a destination, a frontier for them to explore as they explored new levels of themselves. It was just like Saudi Arabia Indonesia, East Texas, the North Sea--a place under which oil happened to be. They were an occupying army, bloodless mercenaries...
...assuage your conscience. You will not win this stage of the quarrel. Libertarians, many of them, wear dollar signs on their ties. They read Ayn Rand, and think happiness is this valley where everybody makes profits--unless they're unfit and hence lose money. Don't bother calling them bloodless assholes, because they think that being bloodless is a virtue. They may even accuse you of being captive to your emotions; good libertarians don't have any emotions, except rage that they're being kidnapped, stolen from, raped...