Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Black Beans. The opposition's showing was doubly impressive in view of the odds stacked against it. Unable to field candidates in a quarter of Brazil's municipalities, MDB was also stripped of a politically potent weapon-television. Under a strict electoral code drawn up by Geisel's Minister of Justice, Armando Falcào, candidates of both parties were forbidden to use TV or radio to speak to the voters. Meanwhile, "public service" broadcasts extolling the achievements of the revolution flooded the air waves. Weighing the opposition's impressive vote against these obstacles, political observers...
...British upper crust, the British criminal code and the British bent towards social climbing all bear the brunt of the satire in Kind Hearts and Cornets. But the kidding is all in impeccable fun. Alex Guiness, as the seven (or eight) members of the noble D'Ascoyne clan, gets to be knocked off seven (or eight) times by a commoner who has it in for the family. Sipping poisoned port, crashing in a punctured balloon or sinking with his ship, no one has ever kicked the bucket for so many laughs. A fickle Joan Greenwood finally lands the mass assassin...
...victor stressed the importance of improving the "image of Congress in the eyes of the people" as well as his intent to continue working for reform and a "code of ethics" within Congress...
...make. "The fact that a member might be married makes no difference at all," clucked Riegle. So the Congressman was understandably distressed last week when the Detroit News unearthed some 1969 taped conversations between the married Riegle (he divorced and remarried in 1972) and someone in his office code-named Dorothy. The tapes, the authenticity of which Riegle does not dispute, describe an "exquisite session" enjoyed by the Congressman and Dorothy. In one conversation, he complains about having to attend "a lousy subcommittee hearing" and agrees to put off anything for Dorothy, "even a presidential appointment." Riegle, who once...
...follow suit. In the subsequent floor of correspondence from students, parents, teachers and administrators who had heard the news, Richard Moll, then director of Bowdoin admissions, received a note from an admissions colleague in New York: "Bowdoin will never amount to anything anyway, because your zip code number...