Word: glib
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Republican charges and glib BILLYGATE headlines notwithstanding, the only comparisons turned up so far between the Billy affair and Watergate were surface trappings. A splurge of daily newspaper stories speculating on vague "intelligence" reports and plots, the convening of a special subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee with power to subpoena White House documents, even the revival of the old question, "What did the President know and when did he know it?"-these all had the ring of Watergate. So did the repeated anticipation of things they "forgot" to say. The vow of Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, who will head...
What this world doesn't need is a Dr. Toni. I cannot appreciate her glib solutions based on today's loose morals...
...tempted. Unlike most political reporters he thinks campaigning, and the plaudits that come with it, would be fun, and that "it might be interesting to serve in the United States Senate, for instance." He adds with a familiar grin: "Don't think because I'm such a glib talker on the subject that I've considered...
Secondly--and this is why no justification of such scenes as "artistically necessary" is possible--the entire conception and style of the story is inadequate to the issues involved. Attanasio is glib, his characters are glib. Everyone is very glib and clever and no real commitment to dealing with the problems of American machismo and militarism is made. The characters are intellectual enough (graduate students at Harvard, dropping allusions to Heidegger and Hemingway!) that only intellectuals will read the story; yet they are redneckedly outlandish enough (bowling and slinging semi-automatic weapons) that they will not challenge any intellectuals...
...World is the upcoming TV special's title. Bryant, 39, both star and angel of the two-hour show, hopes the little corner will gather big ratings. It marks a comeback of sorts for the lady, who became a target of Gay Lib and comics' glib three years ago after mounting a righteous antihomosexual crusade that gained national attention. The singer, who lives in Miami Beach, retained her $100,000-a-year contract to promote Florida's citrus industry, but her orange juice commercials were yanked temporarily, and other jobs proved scarce. "I was blacklisted...