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...When she gets into an argument she talks all the time. Talk. Talk. Talk. Because of this she is not a very good chairman." She can be scornful of those who are not tough in either performance or philosophy, reserving for them her ultimate pejorative, "wet," which in her lexicon is an accusation of gutlessness...
...first level, Magritte's art produced some of the most disturbing images of alienation and fear in the lexicon of modern art. There is no more chilling icon of the failures of sexual communication than The Lovers, 1928, with two anonymous (but inescapably similar) heads kissing through their gray cloth integuments. Nor are there many paintings that sum up the pathos of fetishism-the substitution of a symbolic part for the desired whole-more acutely than In Memoriam Mack Sennett, 1936, in which a woman's negligee, hanging on its own in a closet, has developed a forlornly...
History students for years to come may well read about the U.S.-Iranian relationship of the '60s and '70s as the case study of a policy that paralyzed itself. "The Iran dilemma" may even creep into the lexicon of political scientists who, with the benefit of hindsight, conduct post-mortems on the agony that the Carter Administration is now experiencing...
Special, miniseries, big event: these are the most overused terms in television's absurd lexicon of hype. But in the 1978-79 season, when almost every prime-time show is labeled spectacular by the networks, one mini-series surely justifies the advance billing. That show is Roots: The Next Generations, ABC's sequel to the most popular TV entertainment of all time. When this 14-hour production airs over seven nights in early February, upwards of 100 million viewers may tune in to see if it is a worthy successor to the original Roots. ABC expects a huge...
...continued to oppose him. In 1976, when Teng was deposed a second time, for supposedly having fomented riots in Peking's T'ien An Men Square, Wu made a serious mistake. The mayor branded Teng a "capitalist roader," one of the worst insults in the Communist Chinese lexicon. After Teng made his sensational second comeback some 15 months ago, even attempts to save Wu by some key Politburo leaders failed to protect the mayor from the Vice Premier's vengeance...