Word: figureheaded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This year, Miriani is facing serious opposition in Detroit's nonpartisan mayoralty race. His opponent: Lawyer Jerry Cavanagh, 33, who describes Miriani as a ''ceremonial figurehead who presides over the abandonment of the city." Cavanagh talks of attracting new industry, capturing a bigger slice of the St. Lawrence Seaway trade, and, if need be, leveling an income tax on anyone-including suburbanites-who makes money in Detroit...
...state of Rio Grande do Sul, Jango laid proper claim to the Presidency. In doing so, he had the backing of nearly every civilian leader in Brazil, whatever their misgivings. The solution was the inauguration of Goulart as President, but under a new constitutional amendment making him a figurehead in a parliamentary system controlled by a Prime Minister...
...Will Choose." Within minutes. Goulart was deeply involved in the political talk that he calculated would give him more than a figurehead's voice in the affairs of government. Retaining the right to choose his own Prime Minister, Goulart made full use of it. "I and nobody else will choose the Prime Minister," he told congressional leaders, and proceeded to haggle until they finally agreed on a man acceptable to both sides. The choice: Tancredo Neves, 51, a conservative businessman from Minas Gerais, who was Justice Minister under President Getúlio Vargas in 1954 and was now serving...
...dictation under the eyes of John Trumbull's Portrait of Alexander Hamilton, while another types letters near some floating rectangles by Mark Rothko. A client, his mind a mass of figures, hustles past a superb African sculpture and suddenly finds himself confronting an 18th century ship's figurehead standing next to an abstraction by Joan Mitchell. Here and there a Charles Burchfield or an Andrew Wyeth appears; there is a convulsed semi-abstraction by Larry Rivers, a grisly head by Leon Golub, a surrealist landscape by Kay Sage, a calligraphic work by Mathieu and splashy one by Adolph...
...broad-based coalition government." The way things were going back home, one diplomat cracked, "Boun Oum will be lucky to get the Education Ministry." After two days, about the only thing the princes could get together on was that they would keep amiable King Savang Vatthana as a figurehead monarch. "The King is sacred to us," said the Red Prince piously...