Word: imbroglio
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...many of the signs made clear, the imbroglio had more to do with domestic Iranian politics than with U.S. feelings toward the regime of the man who has ruled Iran for 36 years. But even though relatively few Americans joined in such displays, the Shah's visit served to highlight one of the country's more ambivalent foreign involvements. A top State Department official calls it one of Washington's "most complex relationships." On one side of the ledger, the Shah symbolizes much that the Carter White House opposes: royal posturing, human rights violations, prodigious arms spending...
Similar pleas from restaurateurs and unions defeated a harsher plan by John F. Kennedy in 1961 to put a $4 to $7 limit on the deductibility of business meals. The greatest irony of the expense-account imbroglio is that the people likely to be most hurt by a crackdown are not high-living executives but modestly paid waiters and kitchen help...
resignation of people aiding one another through a darkened city, or by cursing the imbroglio of the Middle East...
...Late Show. Art Carney trudges through the role of washed-up shamus Ira Wells, opposite Lily Tomlin's hippydippy hippy, who hires Wells to find her cat and leads them both into a big mess of a sinister imbroglio. Robert Benton, screenwriter and director, does a lot of borrowing, from both classic and more recent detective flicks, but does his cribbing in style. The actors, meanwhile, are heavily, and affectingly, into themselves: particularly the kharma and vibrations-obssessed Tomlin. With the same L.A. backdrop that the great Chandler stories grew out of, this one proves as well-oiled...
Alice's plight, it in fact appears, is the same philosophical imbroglio in which Friedrich is mired. Unfortunately there is no Chesire Cat to inform him of his muddle...