Word: lackeyism
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AFTER he has lived with the now-grown Cosette (Tamara Jenkins) for some time, Valjean realizes he is devoted to her, and the focal point of his life becomes taking care of his beloved "daughter." However, he must also run from Javert (Herndon Lackey), his relentless parole officer...
Aquino's problems are likely to proliferate. The N.P.A. last week announced that it was including among its targets American businesses on the island of Mindanao. Some Filipinos believe the move is a ploy to cast Aquino as a lackey of U.S. imperialism. Said Opposition Senator Juan Ponce Enrile: "The N.P.A. will say, 'We're only fighting American imperialists. So why is the Philippine government shooting at us?' " The local elections scheduled for Jan. 18 are bound to be violent. For one thing, minor rivalries between small-town politicos could turn into bloody feuds multiplied hundreds of times over across...
...Committee of 15 punished students for their part in that action, the disciplinary group drew fire as the lackey of a ruthless University. Harvard abolished the group, replacing it with...
Dobrynin understood the American idiom and psychology, unlike most ambassadors. In the U.S., he was a hale fellow with a ready stock of one- liners and an indestructible alimentary canal. In Moscow or summiteering with his bosses, he faded into the background and became another cold-eyed lackey who, as he once did, jumped up and down like a kangaroo to open and close windows to accommodate Brezhnev's delicate health...
...that his giddy young wife lies dead on the floor, accidentally slain by him as she prankishly impersonated a ghost. What really inflames him is that the breakfast toast has gone cold. In a ranting fury he rings for a servant and, almost as an afterthought, gulls the hapless lackey into believing himself responsible for the killing. Then, confident of his escape and frugal to the last, Lord Are points to the remains of the meal and tells his dupe, with a dismissive flourish, "Throw the toast to the hens on your way to prison...