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What might be called the Glib Crib Crisis began when the New York Times revealed that Biden had been guilty of rhetorical shoplifting. Biden's passionate and seemingly personal closing statement in a Democratic debate in Iowa in late August had been swiped without attribution and almost word for word from a Kinnock TV commercial designed to evoke memories of the British class struggle. Where Kinnock's coal-mining ancestors worked "eight hours underground," Biden's somewhat mythical forebears "would come up after twelve hours." Biden in the past had given credit to Kinnock, but in Iowa he introduced...
...from backers' auditions to full-fledged Broadway tryouts. The cast in both parties seems set; only Democratic Congresswoman Pat Schroeder of Colorado is waiting in the wings actively considering a late entry. The candidates (eight Democrats, with Schroeder, and six Republicans) have had months to master their lines, crafting glib answers to almost every conceivable question and perfecting a sincere this-is-who-I-am stump speech. The early-bird voters in Iowa and New Hampshire for the most part have been attentive, recognizing that this is the first campaign in two decades without an incumbent President dominating the race...
They weren't. Most of the shots on Firing Line were blanks. The Somber Seven were all painfully earnest, briefing-book glib and unfailingly polite. But the few issue differences that emerged (primarily on trade and oil-import fees) were introduced almost apologetically with phrases like "with all due respect." Jesse Jackson and Delaware Senator Joseph Biden, the orators of the group, seemed to believe that flights of rhetoric would be unseemly at such a high-tone forum. Two of the technocratic moderates in the race, Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt and Tennessee Senator Albert Gore Jr., were largely content...
...origin of the acronym is not known, but it is often attributed to glib real estate agents or to clever marketing M.B.A.s bored with the term yuppie. What separates DINKs from most other Americans is a much greater percentage of discretionary income. "DINKs are one of the few groups that are doing much better than the previous generation," says Frank Levy, an economist at the University of Maryland...
...Kvitsinsky, during arms-control talks in Geneva in 1983. His wry and engaging new work at the Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven, Conn., persuasively imagines the human fabric of a similar fictional enterprise. Blessing's conceit is that the Soviet negotiator, far from a stereotypical xenophobe, is worldly, glib and cynical, while the American newcomer is stuffy, dogged, socially inept but passionately idealistic about averting a nuclear horror. This divergence triggers a very funny opening scene: the Soviet makes friendly overtures -- "Formality is simply anger with its hair combed" -- while the American priggishly resists and snaps, "I am disappointed...