Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hysterium, the slave-in-chief on whom Pseudolus has leverage because of his collection of pornographic pottery, is suitably hysterical, in all senses of the word. He runs about like a Skinner-box mouse on Thorazine. Taking time out to sing "I'm Calm," he shows he's as cool under fire as barbecue sauce in a heat wave. Andy Borowitz is on target too, in his characterization of Lycus, a gentleman and procurer. He adds just the right dash of street hip, and being skinny with black moustache, owes more than just a nod to Groucho in his delivery...
...rages at his cook Macbeth ("Macbeth has murdered sleep, and my digestion"). Falstaff acknowledges that there was a report of his death at the Boar's Head Tavern in Eastcheap some years earlier but explains it as a harmless charade, staged with Mistress Quickly's help, to cool the passions of his creditors...
...Bentsen alienated much of the conservative support in the business community that helped him capture the seat in 1970. His support for an elimination of the oil depletion allowance for major oil companies also strained his ties to the business sector of his constituency. However, many Democrats are still cool to Bentsen because he unseated liberal Senator Ralph Yarborough in a 1970 Democratic primary...
...black voters. Moynihan's political problem with blacks stems from his study of the black family in which he alleged that a "pathological" matriarchal structure was in part responsible for blacks' inferior socio-economic status, and from a memo to former president Richard M. Nixon suggesting that the Administration cool the volatile political climbate by adopting a policy of "benign neglect" on racial and urban matters. Although Moynihan has said repeatedly that the "benign neglect" remark was quoted out of context, and that his purpose in the black family study was to advocate the establishment of government programs...
...nice going John. You're really cool. May you walk under a ladder and get called for illegal use of hands...