Word: concessioners
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Barnum called himself "Prince of Humbugs," but today the circus has become respectable. The troupers study theater, ballet, and circus arts. Many have college degrees. I half expect to find in the program a list of corporate contributions and NEA matching funds, and, in fact, I do. The Big Apple...
"We have lost to the white racist press and to the racist reactionary Jewish misleaders." That concession speech alone might be enough to convince southside Chicago voters that they had done the right thing by ousting Gus Savage after six terms in the House of Representatives. Savage, 66, was beaten...
Najibullah's latest concession to the peace process came shortly after a major mujahedin faction claimed that it had captured the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, site of a government air base; Kabul denied the claim. Hard- line mujahedin, ignoring the President's offer, vowed to fight on.
English Canadians feel they have taken the role of the masochist in a bad marriage, making concessions in the vain hope of peace. The most irritating concession they went along with was the policy of bilingualism, established by former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in the '60s and '70s. Pols and...
It is increasingly difficult, however, to visualize any of the starting five lifting his arms in the traditional V before an adoring convention come July -- let alone graciously accepting George Bush's concession on Election Night. Bill Clinton for a time looked like a deflating balloon, the air hissing out...