Word: flaps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Joan Didion's fourth novel carries a few unnecessary burdens. There is the silly pink book jacket, the pompous flap copy ("a precise and pitiless exploration of lives lived in the harsh glare of public scrutiny") and, worst of all, the title, which is as ostentatious as that of the author's last novel, A Book of Common Prayer. Nor is the reader reassured when this most confident of stylists lodges herself as an extraneous character in the book, discussing narrative ploys that she has considered and rejected and alerting the reader to real or imagined difficulties ahead...
...start off, the flap with former Police Commissioner Sanford H. Gorodetsky erupted Sandy, ironically, was both the city's Top Cop and major target in a probe by the police over corruption in City Hall Sandy doesn't like the Police Chief. Anthony J. Mancuso and so he fired him minutes after Cianci said he would resign...
...Congress members already troubled by the foreign concern, the flap over the World Court and their own previous misgivings about the contra campaign, the press stories were the last straw. Many lawmakers sounded almost as outraged by what they contended was an Administration failure to inform them as they were offended by the policy. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Goldwater in his angry letter to Casey specifically accused the CIA director of failing to give the committee "the information we were entitled to receive; particularly, if my memory serves me correctly, when you briefed us on Central America just a couple...
...former President Jimmy Carter's briefing papers for his October 1980 debate with then Candidate Ronald Reagan wind up in the Reagan camp? The mystery titillated Washington last summer. "Debategate" entered the lexicon, and the inevitable congressional investigation began. The President dismissed the flap as "much ado about nothing...
...flap this bug with gilded wings, thus painted child of dirt that stinks and stings; whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys. Yet , and beauty ne'er enjoys. --Alexander Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot...