Word: cabalism
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...raced over a stack of crumbling copies of the Yale Daily News. The top copy, the 1989 Year in Review/Swimsuit issue, was knocked off and opened to the comics page. Scrawled into the margins with the blood of nubile young oarsmen was a list of the secret cabal's top news events of the year. The Crimson's crack squad of investigative reporters/archaeologists, fresh from a screening of "Rambo XXIII: Rambo Meets Indiana Jones" starring Mike Tyson Jr. and Ron Reagan III, happened upon the site. They were able to salvage the following fragments for their readers...
...think of women as objects to be excluded from one's social and intellectual circles and dragged bodily into one's bedroom or pool hall. "Zealots In Protest" scream about the club's collective "closed doors and open zippers." Blacks and other minorities are seldom admitted to the secret cabal, and as if sexism and racism were not enough, no one without the right family connections should expect to be admitted. Or so the story goes...
LIBRA by Don DeLillo (Viking; $19.95). Another conspiracy theory about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, this one fictional, mingling real people -- like Lee Harvey Oswald -- with an imaginary cabal of disgruntled CIA types...
LIBRA by Don DeLillo (Viking; $19.95). Another conspiracy theory about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, this one fictional, mingling real people like Lee Harvey Oswald with an imaginary cabal of disgruntled CIA types...
Even as Jackson's rivals -- Dukakis in particular -- stress their electability, signs are growing that aggressively pressing the Jesse-can't-win argument could trigger an angry black response. Texas Congressman Mickey Leland, a leading black supporter of Jackson, called a press conference last week to denounce an unnamed cabal of party leaders who were plotting against Jackson. There were no specifics to back up the vague allegations, but Leland fired a warning shot through his none-too-subtle use of the word racist...