Word: flaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...national sickness. For months we've welcomed the poorly written reams of over-analyzed crap about the election. Just think of all the breath wasted over smelly cigars and cups of coffee all over the country. Now the second it's over, we hop on something else and flap our mouths trying to predict the names of Clinton's cabinet members. The best thing to do--what we've done in this issue--may be to follow the old saying and stick to our roots: Harvard. Unfortunately, coming from Harvard and seeing as how a bunch of these guys probably...
...there was no one else in the Gulf War picture capable of doing anything right") and challenging his account on specific points. Among them: the prince says Schwarzkopf's claim to have "orchestrated the liberation of Kuwait City" is untrue; the prince and his Arab forces did it. The flap is not likely to disappear. The prince notes: "I will be addressing some of these issues in my own book in due course...
...Suppose that you are a venerable Douglas fir somewhere in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. And further suppose that your upper branches provide home and shelter for the endangered spotted owl. And then one day you hear the sound of approaching chain saws. The owls start to flap around you in alarm. And then you see the lumberjacks approaching your trunk, and you realize that the foreman of the crew is actually Elvis...
...publicly to avoid unnecessary skirmishes with the Republican Party's conservative wing. Coming the day after the Fitzgerald boomlet, the pronouncement's timing was curious and set off a round of political speculation. Some thought the abortion comment was an attempt to change the subject from the infidelity flap. Others believed that G.O.P. campaign officials were attempting to have it both ways by having Mrs. Bush woo independent and Republican women who find the party's pro-life platform unrealistic...
...flap over Quayle also diverted attention from the Administration's attempt to blame the Democrats for the deficit and the sickly economy. Introducing the Administration's midyear economic review, Budget Director Richard Darman blasted Congress for failing to enact Bush's economic program, including his proposals to reduce the capital-gains tax and give first-time homebuyers a $5,000 tax credit...