Word: bulwark
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...around here, if you mention the Second Amendment, you're a radical nut. Well, then George Washington was a radical nut. He's on record saying guns are the bulwark of liberty...
...reserves of zinc, copper, manganese and gold. But ever since the prices of metals began dropping in the 1970s, Zaire's economic progress has been frozen. Stagnation turned into catastrophe in the late 1980s, when the cold war ended and the Western powers that had bankrolled Mobutu as a bulwark against communism informed him that his credit had run dry. In response, the President distanced himself from day-to-day governance, and Zaire's threadbare cohesion started to pull apart. The worst unraveling took place in North and South Kivu provinces, sparking a crisis that bequeathed to Kabila what...
...long. His style of rule combines charisma with a flair for draconian repression. (As part of an "authenticity campaign" in the '70s to divest Zaire of its European taint, he outlawed bow ties, public kissing and Christmas.) But he also successfully marketed his country to the West as a bulwark against Soviet expansion in Africa, until the collapse of the Soviet Union robbed him of his usefulness...
...plotting, Burns, expanding the territory he opened up in The Brothers McMullen, is at heart a realist of an interesting kind--cool, nonjudgmental, even genial. He is also a confident subversive, gnawing away at the notion, currently so popular in political circles, that average Americans, holding to traditional values, bulwark us against the virus of postmodern moral ambiguity. What he's saying in this marvelously dry, sly movie is that it's epidemic...and irresistible...
...said Edward Looney, the head of the New Jersey Council on Compulsive Gambling. "But they're turning their heads on this." -->