Word: cabal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rewards of all the wit and work are now plentiful: for one thing, she is the only female in a seditious cabal called the American Academy of Humor Columnists, whose other members are Art Buchwald, Russell Baker, Art Hoppe, Gerald Nachman and Don Ross, and whose sole function is to give members an excuse to write insulting letters to one another. (She was admitted, says Buchwald, because she won a banana-bread bake-off with another woman and also promised to make coffee and clean up.) Her friends are admiring and loyal. "There is an awful lot under the hair...
...tells us so. Alas for Sidney Lumet, history hangs like a crape cloud over his new film. The Rosenberg File, just published to a chorus of raves, scrupulously documents Julius Rosenberg's involvement with a Soviet spy ring; Ethel was probably a knowledgeable but passive member of the cabal. Since the authors' preliminary findings were published in 1979, Daniel's angry grimace looks like a rictus of brazen naivete...
...artists' Mafia in Naples, grabbing the commissions for themselves and frightening rivals with bloodcurdling threats. Poor Domenichino, the Bolognese master who had been invited to decorate the chapel of St. Gennaro in Naples' cathedral, rushed back to Rome in a state of collapse after hearing from this cabal. Grand Guignol abounded, especially in details like the amputated hand in the foreground of Massimo Stanzione's Massacre of the Innocents, which seems ready to scuttle away, like a pink crab...
Once in city hall, Byrne quickly changed her campaign views. The machine politicians she had once denounced as "the evil cabal" soon became her allies and confidants. Byrne embraced their support, and went on to consolidate her power in the Cook Country Democratic Committee. June Byrne had not killed the machine, she merely added a new chapter to its history...
Ultimately, her compromises and association with the "cabal" lost Byrne the support of Chicago voters, especially the Black bloc...