Word: jabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Author Sinclair Lewis, whose position as National Champion Castigator is challenged only by his fellow idealist, Critic Henry Louis Mencken, has made another large round-up of grunting, whining, roaring, mewing, driveling, snouting creatures-of fiction-which, like an infuriated swineherd, he can beat, goad, tweak, tail-twist, eye-jab, belly-thwack, spatter with sty-filth and consign to perdition. The new collection closely resembles the herd obtained on the Castigator's last foray, against the medical profession (Arrowsmith, 1925) and a parallel course is run, from upcreek tabernacles, through a hayseed college and seminary to a big-city...
...secretary, Robert Shrum, asked Drayne and Mankiewicz for some gags. They helped Kennedy steal the show from the five Democratic hopefuls on the dais. Kennedy poked fun at Rollings' heavy Southern accent ("the only non-English-speaking candidate ever to run for President"). And he flicked a good jab at the easiest mark in town, urging that Interior Secretary James Watt be thrown to the wolves "while there are still some wolves left...
...between the second and third rounds my manager told me I was winning the fight--to stay cool, move, jab and throw the right," Casey explained. He did much more, landing solid combinations throughout the round and winning the bout going away...
...contention that the truly needy were still protected by a "social safety net." White House Communications Director David Gergen angrily charged that the documentary hit "below the belt," and that some of Moyers' examples were misleading. CBS stood by the program, and Moyers has continued to jab at Reaganomics in his Evening News commentaries. In December, for example, he began an analysis with these assertions: "This country is in trouble. People are hurting. The people who govern us acknowledge the dangers, but they continue to act at odds with reality...
...ruminations on U.S. Soviet relationships in the chapter on Khruschev and Brezhnev, for example, are moderate if self-congratulatory in their defense of detente. Nixon only predictably lambasts the "superdoves" but also lashes out at the "superhawks," in a not-too-subtle Jab at the strident Reagan approach to dealing with the Soviets. A "hard-headed detente" is the best strategy the U.S. could adopt in this nuclear age, he creditably argues When Nixon sets aside ideology and self-interest partially (he can never do it fully), he does prove insightful and at times persuasive. Such glimpses...