Word: jested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economy, dismisses the rival supply-side school, which Reagan championed. Supply-siders claim that cuts in tax rates should spur savings and investment and release a torrent of new production. "Our dispute with supply-siders is that their theories are nonsense," retorts Klein. Then he adds, in only partial jest: "They pulled a vast swindle on the American public-so much so that I've often thought that if there were Nuremberg trials for economists, supply-siders would be in the dock...
Read Jimmy Carter's memoirs? Surely you jest. Living through them was punishment enough...
...joke, it drew great guffaws. "The biggest moneymaker in Hollywood last year was Colombia," quipped Johnny Carson during the 1981 Oscar awards ceremony. "Not the studio-the country." There is considerable truth in the jest: though used throughout the U.S., cocaine remains an especially apt symbol for the affluent Southern California lifestyle. If John De Lorean's alleged shipment of 220 lbs. had indeed made its way into the Los Angeles marketplace, it would have found buyers...
Hamlet's frequent "O God" comes out "O Gahd," and the dramatist's "O Wonderful" has been turned into a Wittenbergian "Wunderbar," and "inexplicable" is mispronounced. On holding Yorick's skull, Hamlet comments, "I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest. "But Walken says, "I knew him, [Long pause] Horatio a fellow of infinite jest." When we reach the Prince's dying words, Walken is so heedless of meter that the beautiful line. "Absent thee from felicity awhile" emerges with an accent on the first syllable...
Despite his political accomplish ments, many Guatemalans remain un comfortable over Rios Montt's religious convictions. "There are two juntas in Guatemala," according to a jest, "a political one and a religious one." Indeed, Rios Montt has brought two elders of his church into the government: Bianci as public relations director and Alvaro Contreras as his private secretary. He frequently seeks the counsel of other elders. Adds James DeGolyer, an elder who has come from the U.S. to help the Guatemalan congregation: "We pray for Efrain and the brothers. Thousands of people are praying for them...