Word: flaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from which neoliberals recoil in horror. Despite his deadly earnest attempt, Rothenberg doesn't really help us in the quest for definition. Grouping as disparate politicians as North Carolina's Gov. James Hunt (a conservative in disguise). Timothy Wirth (a high-techie), and former California Gov. Jerry Brown (a flake) under the rubric of neoliberalism only confirms the impression that the label is of use solely to the self-serving cognoscenti...
...Mitterrand's French press corps reveled in the parade of West Coast characters: gay rights activists heckling Governor George Deukmejian, Hare Krishnas chanting in their saffron robes, all-purpose cranks going about their lonely protests. Declared one placard: ALL POLITICIANS, OF LEFT OR RIGHT, ARE PIGS. Every passing flake drew an appreciative "Oh, j'adore!" from the French entourage...
...subject of gossip and raised eyebrows, most people have not lost sight of what really makes Lexington run: its Thoroughbreds. "We take it [breeding] seriously," says Horsewoman Mary Jane Gallaher. "It's more important whether a foal is upside down in a mare than whether a few flake-out Louies are playing weird games on the side...
...same. And hence, above all, the quality of Constable's mature work that seems so puzzlingly modern, a prediction of impressionism: the thick paint. By his late years he was piling it on with a palette knife in higher and higher tones, all the way up to pure flake white, in an effort to render the broken luminosity he saw in nature. There are moments when one feels the subject needs disinterring from the mass of pigment, but the expressive gains were sometimes enormous...
...PLAY also satirizes law school professors, one of whom describes himself as "a flake off the upper crust." "In probably the best musical number in the show, students impersonate the two famous negotiators, Profs. Roger Fisher (Ken Hodder) and Frank Sander (Jacques Semmelman) who sing a competitive, "I can do anything better than you can" duo called Getting...