Word: bureaucratical
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Monica Lewinsky has always been a stranger to her generation. She has seemed lovestruck, needy, pitiable--never hip or even comprehensible. After all, what self-respecting twentysomething would want to be a White House bureaucrat, or hang with Mom all the time, or lust after a golf-playing, Kenny G.-listening fiftysomething with a taste for giving cheesy gifts...
...staff believes that Massachusetts's teacher testing program is suspect because of "the secrecy surrounding its methodology." That, and the fact that state officials have had the nerve to call dumb teachers "dumb." Fittingly, the staff seems to think that the solution to this is a kindly bureaucrat in shining armor who should come from the federal government, known, of course, for its humanness, its sunshine and its clarity...
...Poulis '02 as Don Alhambra, the Grand Inquisitor. Fenton carries off the part of the enterprising, officious windbag with the perfect amount of dull pomposity and cornball silliness and is matched by Kristin Brouwer in the part of the saucy but snotty, Duchess. Poulis mixes equal parts stodgy bureaucrat, fiendish Inquisitor and lecherous old man to take the typical Gilbert and Sullivan "uptight official" role to new, uproariously deadpan heights...
...STARR Bureaucrat. "He'd be good as a loss-prevention specialist, ferreting out dishonest employees...
...power. Men made rich through political connections in the post-Soviet economy have wielded substantial influence ever since they got rich buying up government assets at bargain prices and two years ago financed Yeltsin's come-from-behind election victory. The reappointment of Chernomyrdin, the ponderous former natural-gas bureaucrat who was for years Yeltsin's most obedient Prime Minister, signals the intention of these rich men to obtain a government that will protect their ill-gotten assets...