Word: gobbledygook
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...candidates. It was, said one party official, a spectacle of eight Democrats standing in a circle and shooting at one another. The sight was not always edifying. They all got together for a curiously adolescent debate in Hanover, N.H., where John Glenn accused Mondale of spouting "the same vague gobbledygook of nothing," and Gary Hart zeroed in on Mondale's greatest weakness, his ties to Democratic interest groups-organized labor, Jews, teachers and so on. "Fritz," said Hart, "you cannot lead this country if you have promised everybody everything." The Reagan staff watched with broad grins...
...response--preceded by a diatribe against deficits--is nothing but gobbledygook. It seems he is saying the budget deficit is due to the government taking in too much money and the way to fix it is eliminating even more taxes...
...also gave the pack a chance to test Front Runner Mondale. The most dramatic challenge came at the 21/2-hour mark, when Glenn took to the attack. As Mondale explained how he was going to cut the federal budget deficit, Glenn interjected that Mondale was spouting "the same vague gobbledygook of nothing." Waving his fist, Glenn protested, "There wasn't a single figure attached to that...
Many of the encomiums heaped upon Kim Il Sung are, in any language, indecipherable gobbledygook. Korea Today, a monthly propaganda magazine, published this sentence: "His unexcelled prodigious wisdom . . . cyclopaedic knowledge of nature and society, clairvoyant scientific insight with which to perceive clearly the essence of inextricably entangled phenomena and ability to compress aspirations of millions of people in a simple proposition ... are his distinguished qualities with which to conduct ideo-theoretical activities." Moreover, North Korean officials steadfastly assert that the world looks to Pyongyang for inspiration and that the government's paid propaganda advertisements in Western newspapers constitute editorial...
...result is visual gobbledygook. An example is the new crop of "postmodern" buildings. They are three-dimensional collages of discrepant ornament and styles. The design of most new interiors, furniture, cars, appliances and printed matter also continues to follow ill-mannered fads rather than good form. A confusion of design with mere styling, packaging or form-giving still haunts our culture...