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...have no idea why people are voting for Clinton," said Fred Stimmons, a Business School graduate. "His campaign was an extraordinary collection of misrepresentations. He can't possibly keep up his promises. It's absurd. He's a buffoon...
Well, there is one necessity on Henry's agenda. Bunny -- the unserious one, the blabbermouth, the buffoon -- begins to suspect the quartet of the killing in the field. In general Tartt shows a superior sense of pace, playing off her red herrings and foreshadowings like an old hand at the suspense game. The book's only lag occurs in her needlessly elaborate effort to turn Bunny from a likable pest into someone obnoxious enough for Richard to want to kill (for the others, fear of detection is enough). The cause of Bunny's mounting hysteria, of course, is simple...
...King called Keating's charge "historically quite inaccurate." Keating's rudeness, snapped Terry Dicks, a Conservative, was unsurprising in "a country of ex-convicts," a reference to the British penal colonies started there in the 18th century. The Labor Party's Ted Leadbitter denounced Keating as "an utter buffoon." The Queen let it be known she would have no comment...
...defendant, businessman Clay Shaw, not guilty in less time than last week's West Palm Beach jurors took to exonerate William Kennedy Smith. For the past decade, Garrison (who appears in JFK as Chief Justice Earl Warren) has been part of America's conspiracy industry -- saint to some, buffoon to others...
Yeltsin has at various times been dismissed, both in the Kremlin and in the West, as a buffoon, an opportunist, a would-be autocrat wrapped in a populist mantle. His judgment has often been questioned -- along with his sobriety. Cynical speculation has abounded about his conversion to democratic principles. His assertiveness and impulsiveness have always exasperated more conventional politicians like Gorbachev, who viewed Yeltsin for years with wariness and distrust...