Word: gibe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wheels and the effective swinging of a baseball bat over the long season and into the play-offs, but not in the matter of cop-and-crime stories. This is unfair. "You're reading another one of his?" the addict's spouse derides, leaving unspoken the remainder of the gibe ("rather than learning Italian or visiting the aged...
...venturing into the political fray on other topics as well. The Simpsons chose the night of Bush's acceptance speech at the Republican Convention to make their reply to the President's gibe. "Hey, we're just like the Waltons," said Bart. "Both families spend a lot of time praying for the end of the Depression." The Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings were the subject of pointed comments on Designing Women last season. "The man does not belong on the Supreme Court," said one character. "He belongs in the national repertory theater." Even frivolous shows like Freshman Dorm, a CBS summer...
...noisy platform fight by refusing to help bring amendments proposed by Jerry Brown to the floor (a few Tsongas amendments will be voted down quietly). New York Governor Mario Cuomo, after much wooing, agreed to make the nominating speech for Clinton. That prompted Vice President Quayle to gibe that Cuomo will need extra time to retract some of the nasty things he has said about the Arkansan. Jesse Jackson, grumbling as usual, nonetheless accepted a speech assignment and was expected to issue a formal endorsement over the weekend...
...further indication of serious trouble brewing for Clinton: "the character issue," as it is generally though imprecisely called, has begun drawing the sardonic and sometimes fatal attention of those interpreters of the zeitgeist, TV's late-night talk-show hosts. Sample gibe from Johnny Carson: "Clinton experimented with marijuana, but he said he didn't inhale and didn't enjoy it. That's the trouble with the Democrats. Even when they do something wrong, they don't do it right...
...worn-out old phonograph record" whose potential as a political leader is "not great," snapped Mikhail Gorbachev. An "indecisive . . . master of half measures," countered Boris Yeltsin. That was the kind of gibe the Soviet Union's two leading politicos had been exchanging in three years of unabated rivalry. Last week they decided to cooperate: Gorbachev and Yeltsin agreed to set up a commission to frame a relatively radical plan for introducing a market economy. Said Nikolai Petrakov, a Gorbachev adviser and member of the 13-man panel: "This is the most important information...