Word: jests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...package because they want to make sure all their figures are straight, to prevent any embarrassment when the struggle with Congress begins. "We only cut 3½ billion today," quipped Office of Management and Budget Director David Stockman, emerging from one economic policy session. He spoke only half in jest: the Administration is shooting for a reduction of $15 billion in fiscal 1981 and as much as $35 billion the following year. As part of his economic blitz, Reagan will deliver a public address on his views this week. He also plans to discuss his program on the Hill...
...when it could be scariest. The cache of corpses the monster has stored looks like a rubber limb collection from a joke shop. And, most heinous of all its crimes, it succumbs to the nouveau-horror trend of the 1970's; rather than leave us feeling all was in jest, or solved, as Hitchcock or Agatha Christie would, the movie ends with one of those "You thought it was safe, huh?" twists which is now a DePalma cliche. By then, we've started rooting for the monster...
...helping to defeat some. Foes of the Christian right's crusade against television are worried that it will become part of the movement's growing campaign against political liberalism. Moral Majority's Thomas is frank to admit there is a connection. Says he, only half in jest: "The revolutionaries always take the radio station first. They get the presidential palace later...
...voter "wary-worried -waiting" [Sept. 15]? You jest. With runaway inflation, forced busing and senseless murders, I'm ready to vote right now. Against every incumbent politician and judge...
Shortages may be the most obvious problem, but Poland's economic malaise cuts much more deeply. When the trains do not run, or the electricity goes off, or a project remains unfinished, the response by workers is a shrug of the shoulders and the disclaimer, "To nie jest moja wina" (It isn't my fault...