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...knows precisely who runs the country. The 21-member Military Council for National Salvation is largely a figurehead group. Instead, General Jaruzelski relies on a small kitchen cabinet of advisers. The government is rent by factionalism. Supporters of Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski, who is thought to be a liberal, and those of Party Hard-Liner Tadeusz Grabski take potshots at each other in the official press...
...women usually picked to symbolize change and re-evaluation are those like Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda, who have achieved a popular success that has turned them into celebrities. Steinem therefore becomes an articulate and snazzy figurehead, Fonda a role model whose movie trajectory (from bimbo to feminist beacon) mirrors very neatly the way in which women are supposed to see themselves. Watching and listening to them, though, is not as striking by half as tuning in on a single studio audience of the Phil Donahue Show. Fifteen years ago, these same women might have been sitting in the same...
...move took most of Guatemala's 7.5 million people by surprise. Rios Montt requested and secured the resignation of Brigadier General Horacio Egberto Maldonado Schaad, a docile officer who was apparently tired of being a figurehead. After that, he summoned his other partner, Colonel Francisco Luis Gordillo Martinez, to breakfast at the presidential residence and demanded the colonel's resignation. Gordillo Martinez stubbornly refused to submit it. He reconsidered, however, when heavily armed soldiers restrained him and escorted him to his office...
...used as a figurehead .. . and the sister of you-know-who." The weary speaker is H.R.H. Princess Margaret, royal subject of this most common volume, currently a sensation in Britain. It is not difficult...
According to Nigel Dempster's keyhole narrative, the figurehead has lived "a life unfulfilled." Whether she might have been happier as Prime Minister or nanny is unspecified; certainly she could have had a more gratifying Boswell. Dempster, 40, is a gossip columnist for the London Daily Mail, and throughout, if Margaret is the Disappointed Princess, he is the Old Pretender, stating the loftiest intentions, then betraying them with yet another innuendo...