Word: lib
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...French daily Libération dubbed it the Irish ambush, while Le Monde called it the Irish alert. Both were right. In the curious way that democracy has of upsetting the best-laid plans of the proud and powerful, a strange coalition of Greens, anti-abortion activists, Irish nationalists and detractors of Prime Minister Bertie Ahern voted 54-46% against ratifying the European Union's Nice Treaty, and in so doing, managed to throw the ungainly process of reforming and expanding the E.U. into chaos. As Ahern, embarrassed and chastened, scrambled last week to recover, delegates at the E.U. summit...
...There were other diversions: although I missed Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott's left jab at a protestor in Wales, who threw an egg at him, I did catch the male streaker who jumped on the Lib Dem's final rally platform wearing only a party...
...students in the ’70s were interested in looks and material possessions less and social causes more,” Aliza Karney Guren ’76 recalled. “We were raised with Women’s lib, Civil Rights and Vietnam...
...bing: a distilled, romanticized, possibly fictionalized version of himself. With his regulars (comedian Bob Burns, announcer Ken Carpenter, Jimmy Dorsey's band and then John Scott Trotter's) and a guest list of movie folk, jazzmen and classical musicians, Crosby promoted an air of at-home geniality, ad-lib bon-vivance - almost all of it scripted by Carroll Carroll. The writer shaped and sharpened (that is to say, softened) Crosby's public personality, as other scripters would do in the films. Giddins says Carroll allowed "Bing to be Bing, only more so." He added flourishes to Crosby's facility...
...Road" films were also famous for allowing the stars to speckle the script with their own bavardage, as usually supplied by the writers on the staffs of their radio shows. These weren't precisely ad-libs, but then this wasn't jazz, it was comedy. The point wasn't to be witty on the spot; it was to suggest an offhand wit that whispered to the audience: Nothing matters, it's only a movie. The blitheness was in keeping with Bing's radio personality, and probably with his real one. Bing enjoyed a genuine or seeming ad-lib; sometimes...