Word: jab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ever suspected that psychiatrists might be crazier than the patients they treat, then Beyond Therapy will provide you with plenty of ammunition. This jab at relationships in the 1970s succeeds in ridiculing many of the facades that men and women erect in their dealings, with each other, and it gleefully satirizes the practice of psychotherapy, revealing that the advice which "troubled" patients accept without question often comes from people whose own personal problems make their judgment suspect...
...most memorable moment came when he strolled with the penguins at San Diego's Sea World. The emperor and king penguins occasionally proved less than hospitable to their new companion. Standing hip high, with beaks the size of small kitchen knives, the penguins repeatedly tried to jab Willwerth's legs. Fortunately, the Sea World curator managed to rescue TIME's roving correspondent before any damage was done. As for feeding Kito, Willwerth cannot remember another source that ate quite so quickly. His only challenge remains how to list an acacia tree on his expense account...
From other radical speakers came a similar catalog of complaints. Journalist-Deputy Yuri Chernichenko took a daring jab at Politburo conservative Yegor Ligachev, wondering why he had been placed in charge of agriculture when "he was absolutely ignorant of this sphere and had failed with ideology." Others called for a review of the events in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi last April, when soldiers and riot squads attacked demonstrators with shovels and, it is alleged, with poison gas, killing 20. The probing questions continued until the new First Vice President and nonvoting Politburo member, Anatoli Lukyanov, was moved to read...
Bush threw a stinging jab at Dukakis, saying, "We don't want to return to my opponent's favorite song: 'For all you do, this recession...
Bentsen's jab at George Bush for calling a rented Houston hotel suite his home got an appreciative laugh. But it will take more than a clever line for Bentsen to make Texans think Dukakis is one of them. As his running mate, Bentsen has one overriding responsibility: to put the Lone Star State's 29 electoral votes in the Democratic column in November. No Democrat has won the White House in this century without Texas...