Word: leftishness
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...level, to be on the left means to take the side of the underdog, whoever that may be: the meek, the poor and, generally speaking, the "least among us," as a well-known representative of the left position put it a couple of millenniums ago. Thus it is not leftish to have a $200 haircut while planes full of $20 haircut people circle overhead; nor would a leftist contemplate selling the President's favors at $15,000 a plate fund raisers. Such behaviors belong way over on the right, along with supply-side economics, capital-gains tax reductions and other...
...domestic programs. It proposes to raise taxes on the six-figure crowd, though by no means up to pre-Reagan rates, while imposing a grossly regressive energy or sales tax on the average consumer. It offers earned-income tax credits for the poor but makes up for this leftish move with a surfeit of new tax breaks for business. It's an attempt, in other words, to mix L.B.J., Reagan and Ross Perot -- which is why it comes out as such a flavorless gruel...
...unique to right-wingers, he blames Bob and his advisers for every political atrocity of the past decade -- and a few new ones, including framing a rabid fringe journalist (Giancarlo Esposito) who may have the goods on bad Bob. The crimes are listed not so much to push a leftish agenda as to clarify Bob's villainy for viewers who might be seduced by his style. Robbins, eager not to be misunderstood, has insisted that there be no sound-track album, since the satire in Bob's songs might get lost or perverted on pop radio...
...been engaged in a far-ranging plot to prevent an honest investigation into whether American POWS are still being held in Vietnam, for fear it would expose drug-smuggling operations they conducted to finance a secret war in Laos. Perot may have got that idea from Christic Institute, a leftish public-interest law firm that filed a suit making similar charges (the suit was dismissed in 1988 by a federal judge in Miami, who forced Christic to pay $1 million in court costs as damages for making frivolous charges). The generally conservative Perot and the left- leaning Christic...
...launching the European, an English- language newspaper to compete with the International Herald Tribune. A self-made man who is reportedly Britain's ninth richest, with a net worth of $2 billion, Maxwell has earned wide esteem in London's business community. He is robustly satirized, however, by the leftish Private Eye in the comic strip Captain Bob. Among his fiercest critics are former employees. One claims Maxwell is so manipulative that he scheduled simultaneous lunches with former Secretary of State George Shultz and Paramount studio owner Martin Davis in different rooms at the same restaurant, shuttling between them...