Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...redneck superstar might outrage bluestocking Wilde partisans, but it isn't quite the heresy it seems. Like Elvis, Wilde was a fiercely ambitious hinterlander who took the cultural establishment by storm ("I am not English, I am Irish--which is quite another thing," he stipulated). And here's the coup de grace: reviled as the leading bad influences of their day, both the King of Rock and the King of the Epigram have been resurrected as secular saints, albeit with slightly different constituencies...
...unaccountable brutality he unleashed defies analysis. When writing his biography, Brother Number One, historian David Chandler says he often had the uneasy feeling that Pol Pot "was just outside my line of vision observing me." The dictator's legacy is equally disturbing, says Chandler, pointing to the bloody coup staged by one-time Khmer Rouge lieutenant Hun Sen last year and the continuing political assassinations as the country prepares for elections in July that Hun Sen hopes will legitimize his regime. "In Cambodia you simply get rid of people...
...reward is tiny--perhaps 6% a year in interest payments. On the other hand, lending money to the government of Malaysia is fairly lucrative, but it is not an investment for the faint of heart--the double-digit interest rate brings with it risks of a devaluation, a government coup or an outright default...
...York Times ran a brief today lauding the Glickman decision as "a coup for NYU." In a reference to Waggoner Professor of Economics Robert J. Barro's recent decision to turn down a $300,000 annual salary at Columbia to remain at Harvard, the Times writes, "New York University appears to have succeeded where Columbia University failed...
...woman. "I recently noticed these slogans on posters for the Fantastick Theatre Company's show "It Takes a Woman," which opens this weekend. The show is supposed to be about female empowerment and celebration. However, the posters consisted of other such enlightened slogans as "Gentlemen, commence drooling," and the coup de grace, "Women's line was never this convincing," implying that it is convincing because the women look...