Word: cudgeling
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...about the 35th B.C., those on the receiving end of his conservative cudgel would say. But then, Radio Free Limbaugh is designed to raise liberals' dander quotient. Consider: a vote for Clinton-Gore is "a vote for socialism." Rush has been on Slick Willie's case all year, rejoicing in the early tales of infidelity, assiduously promoting this month's mission-to- Moscow story. He loves to rag Democratic politicians: Ted Kennedy, of course, but also "former U.S. cadaver -- ahem, Senator -- Alan Cranston" or "Fort Worthless Jim Wright, the former Sleazer of the House." What about Perot's 50 cents...
...draft was not the only cudgel the Baker forces were wielding against Clinton's integrity. Bush has begun to assert with increasing intensity that Clinton's record on the Gulf War, the North American Free Trade Agreement and even fuel economy standards for new automobiles is riddled with inconsistencies...
...wagged their fingers at Israel over the issue of building settlements in the occupied territories. But the Bush Administration went much further last week, not by using stronger language but by breaking one of the oldest taboos in Washington's patron relationship with Jerusalem; it used money as a cudgel. After two fruitless days in Jerusalem, Secretary of State James Baker made clear that Washington did not intend to grant Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir the full $10 billion in loan guarantees he has requested to help accommodate an expected 1 million Soviet Jewish emigres. More important, Baker implied that...
...mildly apprehensive about the reception that will greet The Burden of Proof. He expects some reviewers to cudgel him with the success of Presumed Innocent and anticipates complaints that the new novel does not repeat the formula of the old. "But that was intentional," he says. "I was wildly afraid of self-imitation when I began the second book. And I'm proud of The Burden of Proof, particularly the portrait of Sandy Stern and his complicated involvements in family life...
...fault is not entirely Janowitz's. Her only hope was to find a director who could either respond avidly to the sexual and creative energies of the avant-garde scene or take a satirical cudgel to it. Instead, she drew distant, enervated James Ivory (A Room with a View, Heat and Dust, The Bostonians), who never seems to engage fully with any subject he has tackled and who has never been more fastidiously withdrawn than he is here. In this case, however, audiences will be well advised to follow his example...