Word: ironizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tuneful Blood Brothers (book, music and lyrics by Willy Russell), charts the plight of twin boys separated at birth, one raised in the fetid poverty of the post-welfare state, the other by a scheming rich woman whom theatergoers will have no trouble recognizing as a caricature of the Iron Lady. However these dramatists voted last Thursday, they must be grudgingly grateful that their pet beastie will be around for a few more years. She is the noose they can pull around their tight little island...
...G.N.P. may decline by as much as 5%. During the first three months of the year, as the government's austerity program took hold, industrial production was off 11%. Mexico's auto industry, the country's largest non-oil enterprise, suffered a 50% drop in sales. Iron and steel production cooled by 11.5%. The output of radios and other appliances dropped 20%. Even beer consumption was off 20%. The number of jobs in the economy shrank by about 8%, adding perhaps as many as 1.6 million more people to the 10 million already out of work...
...child, called Woodie, was named for his father, one of the most popular and whimsical journalists of his time. Typically, at the zenith of a Florida hurricane, the elder Broun took his son to a golf driving range. Swinging a nine iron, he yelled over the wind: "You'll never get distance like this again." He got more mileage from his columns, evocative pieces that spoke knowledgeably about politics, baseball and Broadway. Between deadlines he founded the Newspaper Guild and remained its president until his death in 1939. Ten thousand mourners attended his funeral...
...will boomerang. "Let them push Maggie to the front of the campaign," chortles one adviser. "We'll just say, 'Now there's an idea-we never thought of that!' And we will then ask people, 'Whom do you want as a leader?' " The Iron Lady, for her part, relishes the fray. "Yes, my style is one of vigorous leadership," she proclaims. "Yes, I do believe in trying to persuade people that the things I believe in are the things they ought to follow. I am what...
...thing people forget about P.G. Wodehouses' novels, noted George Orwell, is how long ago they were written. That was in 1945. Today they appear to have been composed somewhere between the Jurassic era and the Iron Age. The plummy clubmen, the young wastrels in spats and waistcoat, the shockable aunts, the frosty butler belong in a diorama at the Museum of Natural History, not onstage. Yet here they are, spouting the ancient lines: "He looks as if he'd been poured into his suit and forgotten to say when." "From the collar upward he stands alone." The japes...