Word: flaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Given the tensions that gibber and flap through most marriages, Cordelia's affectations seem rather venial, particularly since her wealth makes Richard's existence so cushy. But she and her husband live in the world of Kingsley Amis, where the rules of decorum are a lot stricter and funnier than in ordinary life. Cordelia just won't do, and The Russian Girl (Viking; 296 pages; $22.95) hilariously shows...
...boozy ghost of John Barrymore. The off-Broadway hit and soon- to-be movie Jeffrey is giddy buffoonery, infused with the pain of gay men's sexual yearning in the age of AIDS. His new The Naked Truth is a big step backward. Loosely based on the flap over the late Robert Mapplethorpe's erotic photos, it has nothing fresh to say about culture wars, Republican hypocrisy, women's self-imposed lack of liberation or any of its other thematic targets. Its best lines concern the clothes sense of upper-class women ("Don't you ever feel like Chanel...
Copies of the tapes also came into the possession of U.S. officials before the vote, and their decision to take no action ignited a behind-the-scenes flap in Washington. While the State Department went along with Gaviria's decision to withhold the recordings from the public -- "We can't interfere with elections," explained a State Department member -- some officials of the Drug Enforcement Administration were furious. "No one did anything," said one. "They allowed this travesty to take place. Everybody, including the U.S. government, is participating in this cover...
Lieutenant Flap, a black soldier with an outsize Afro, joins Beetle Bailey. Three Southern newspapers refuse to run any Flap strips...
...handling the sale of their parts of the Whitewater acreage. The story was denied by representatives of the firm, who had some logic on their side: Would they select a part-time college kid to deep-six something really damaging when they could have done the deed themselves? That flap followed in the wake of a Washington Post report that Hubbell was the subject of an internal investigation by his old firm into alleged overbilling of clients, including the RTC. Hubbell denied any wrongdoing, and was stoutly defended by Attorney General Janet Reno...