Word: crookes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court is "moving to the right," going "where it wants to go ... by hook or by crook...
...over, a New York Times editorial concluded that "nothing now known casts any doubt whatever on Mrs. Ferraro's capability to serve the nation as Vice President." The nation must still judge whether she is capable of doing the job, but she has proven she is not a crook. What is unfortunate is that we may never get a clear picture of of her political capabilities--the crucial issue for a potential leader--because the campaign has focused so sharply on the financial sideshow...
...first time that Nixon has appeared before a press group since November 1973, when he delivered his notorious "I am not a crook" speech to an Associated Press managing editors' conference. ASNE President Black said all living former Presidents and Ronald Reagan had been invited to address the meeting, but only Nixon accepted. Confessed Black: "I didn't know how it would go off." Judging by the reaction, Nixon may have achieved his own cold peace with the Fourth Estate. Said Christian Science Monitor Editor Katherine W. Fanning: "For him to be able to stand in front...
...obsession into a cushy government job when a Soviet laboratory purchases his prodigious production of spermatozoa for the greater glory of Communist science. In Kangaroo the author satirizes the false and often absurd confessions that were made at show trials during the Stalin era. Here an engaging professional crook admits to the rape of the oldest kangaroo in the Moscow...
Kangaroo, which Farrar, Straus & Giroux will publish in June, is a masterly example of the Russian mode of skaz, or first-person narrative in the vernacular rather than in literary language. Aleshkovsky, who tells his manic tale in the voice of the crook, displays a phenomenal command of police, prison and underworld slang, as well as Russian obscenity. The writer is currently at work on a novel about a Soviet exile in the U.S. Its hero is a small-time Soviet Casanova who ceaselessly roams the country in a rented car in search of love and lust. He finds both...