Word: bolting
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Such affronts to modern sensibility are not whitewashed in Peter Ackroyd's brilliantly conceived biography The Life of Thomas More (Doubleday; 447 pages; $30). Jarringly inconsistent with the figure idolized in Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons, as well as its multi-Oscared 1966 film version, the sins are nevertheless integral to the man who emerges from Ackroyd's book, which was a No. 1 London Times best seller earlier this year and has been climbing several U.S. lists since being published here last month. Thomas More is not hagiography. Yet here is the paradox...
...case for a reversal: the independent counsel had overstepped his bounds; no President has ever been forced to appear before a grand jury; it could be a perjury trap. The move would be hard to weather politically, the adviser admitted; the Democrats on Capitol Hill might quaver and bolt, and the public reaction could be very ugly. But the alternative could be even worse...
...many people, the sight of a TV commercial is a prompt to either bolt to the kitchen for a quick bite or hit the remote for a quick escape. But last month Master Lock, a division of Fortune Brands based in Milwaukee, Wis., likely became the first national advertiser to run a one-second ad--snack-proof and zap-proof...
Returning from a book tour in which he apologized for everything but the end of Seinfeld, Newt was looking calm, thin and happy. Then James Dobson, the country's most powerful Christian activist, with 28 million radio listeners, came calling, threatening to bolt the party unless Gingrich stones the adulterer in the Oval Office and delivers candidates to Dobson's liking, not ones who use him and don't take his calls in the morning...
...every Republican is comfortable with the influence Dobson and others are exerting over the party. "No matter what you do, they are never satisfied," complains an adviser to the G.O.P. House leadership. For now, however, Dobson's threat to bolt the party--and to work to defeat G.O.P. incumbents who don't vote according to his views--is being greeted with great solemnity. Republican House leaders will deliver a progress report to Dobson when he flies to Washington this week from his headquarters in Colorado Springs. And to keep the pressure on, the famously camera-shy Dobson will tour...