Word: ire
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with great pleasure to four years of wonderful, inspiring speeches, full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection--plus more goddamned nonsense," Brinkley wonderfully declaimed. Perhaps it is due to the fact that Brinkley is to retire after tomorrow's "This Week" that the heroic news man unleashed such ire at the Politco of Politicos, at a guy who might just as well have run the Undergraduate Council. It couldn't just have been Clinton who upset Brinkley. Surely that infamous Eli, George Herbet Walker Bush, could easily have earned the epithet of a "bore." It was the false objectivity...
...Nation," stolen from network headquarters in true Michael Moore fashion, played on the screen while Moore signed copies of his book. In one segment, Civil War veterans re-enacted "great battles" of the past. In another, Janeane Garofolo invaded the private beaches of Greenwich, Connecticut, rousing the ire of its inbred residents; one of them denied being prejudiced against Garofolo's black friends, remarking that Greenwich people were very much in touch with minorities--they employed them in their homes. Although his audience needed no converting, Moore's acute observations and outrageous humor were rewarded by an enthusiastic standing ovation...
Traditional American Jack-o-Lanterns, for instance, began in Ire-land as carved turnips...
...patience the size of her native Texas, finally may have had enough of husband MICK JAGGER's wandering ways. She has hired Anthony Julius, Princess Diana's divorce lawyer. Exactly what she intends Julius to do, if anything more than act as a human warning beacon, is unclear. Her ire was aroused when Jagger was reportedly seen embracing Uma Thurman in one bar and model Jana Rajlich in another. The singer, reputedly Britain's 145th richest man, has three young children with Hall, two children with other amours and two grandchildren. But sometimes granddads need to feel sexy...
...Harvard Sigma Chi chapter which raised administrative ire last month by renting a fraternity house on Mt. Auburn Street, is now in the throes of their fall rush...