Word: lashing
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...Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang, an impulsive speaker who has required public correction before, and reflects the thinking of Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping. The remark was misinterpreted abroad as a major ideological shift, evidently persuading Chinese reformers to qualify Hu's words for fear of inciting a back lash among party conservatives. "Such a fuss is the last thing we wanted," said a Chinese intellectual. "We need a quiet revolution...
...overruled by the White House, he stoutly defended the Administration's decision merely to order more studies of the problem. Critics also note that Ruckelshaus opposed early renewal of the $1.6 billion waste-cleanup superfund. "He leaves almost nothing of permanence as a legacy," says Jonathan Lash, a spokesman for the Natural Resources Defense Council...
...keepers of the gate of the status quo. Many of them are still in shock at the success of this campaign. They know that the course of American politics is changing. They don't know quite where we'll go. So in their panic, they lash out and attack. Every time there is a breakthrough, the politics of paranoia takes over...
...with the foreign ministers of France, Italy and Britain in a château near Paris. That is, of course, impossible until it is known with assurance who is responsible for the bombings. British Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe seemed concerned that Reagan, flushed by his success in Grenada, might lash out at a Lebanese rebel group, or even Syria or Iran. Howe pointedly remarked that massive retaliation would be imprudent. Says a State Department official: "The Brits were just seeking to reassure themselves that we were not planning to take out a country, or go off half-cocked." Shultz...
...perpetual whirlwind of motion, as well as an extremely competent 14-person orchestra thumping away madly in the background. The script contains not a single line of spoken dialogue, unless you count Pontius Pilate yelling. "Twenty-two! Twenty-three! Twenty-four!" while Roman guards put Jesus to the lash. The rest is music numbers of the sliding, dazzling quality that marks the composer's better-known Evita and the lately revived Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat...