Word: glib
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Humorist Art Buchwald saw it, White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan had given supporters of New York Governor Mario Cuomo reason to rejoice. How? By lambasting Cuomo as a "glib, fast-talking lobbyist for a reactionary liberalism" in his campaign against President Reagan's tax-reform plan. And by branding the Democrats' star performer a "welfare statist" who belongs to an "American Left" whose "dirty little secret is that it is interested in power, not people." Such choice abuse, in Buchwald's view, added up to the "kind of endorsement from the White House" that "a Democratic candidate...
...appeared not to notice. The Washington Post stopped recording this ritual when it ceased being news. "Bananas have been thrown at Ewing in at least ten games this year," Reporter Michael Wilbon says. Illiteracy signs were back also: EWING KANT READ DIS. If he is not the most glib performer in the interview room, Ewing apparently has had no trouble conversing with and charming teammates or classmates...
Playing upon such glib, if at times cliched generalioes. Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up" makes for a lively, fun-filled evening of humor and song. Though the play's sexual and religious stereotypes occasionally border on the risque, the levity with which the actors execute their roles keeps even the most devout of Catholics from taking offense. Moreover, because the actors perform so well as an ensemble, the production rarely allows for a dull moment...
...died in 1976 just as the tides started running his way. Unlike today's cutting-edge architects, however, who tend to turn wildly glib and goofy when they design furniture, Aalto took his chairs and stools seriously. An exhibition at New York City's Museum of Modern Art, "Alvar Aalto: Furniture and Glass," shows his winning virtues as a designer writ small. The best pieces are bareboned but sensuous, simultaneously playful and serene. Aalto designed objects that were likable. The furniture at MOMA is so quiet and good-natured, in fact, that the show has an almost bashful...
Contrary to the glib remarks of some contemporary politicians and preachers, religious freedom for all was not a cornerstone of American democracy. The Puritans in England, for example, went to the New World because they believed it was a place where they might have religious freedom, but only for themselves. Wherever Early American clergymen controlled the lives of their people, they permitted absolutely no dissent from their own religious and political beliefs...