Word: gibe
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...rural Russian city of Kaluga. The situation in Russia, he says, is "a catastrophe worse than the invasions of the Tatars, Napoleon and Hitler combined." The mostly over-50 crowd, packed into the "culture palace" of a factory, constantly interrupts Zyuganov with applause, especially when he takes a gibe at Yeltsin and wonders out loud "why you have to be sober to drive a bus but not to run the country...
...next challenge will be to keep his message fresh. His gibe at Congress--"Cut their pay and send them home"--lost much of its punch when Republicans took over the House and Senate in January. Says Charlie Black, a senior adviser to Gramm: "While Lamar is out talking about turning federal programs back to the states, his two principal competitors are in the Senate actually doing it." Black adds, "'I don't work in Washington' is an address, not a message...
...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...