Word: lip
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...billion people every March. He is a star, baptized in the mainstream -- partly because of his quickness of wit, partly because he's so darned cute. The particulars of Mr. Saturday Night's plot pay tribute to Crystal's landsleit: to Jerry Lewis (who began, as Buddy does, by lip-synching to Danny Kaye records), to Red Buttons (who had a '50s TV show), to Jackie Mason (who offended Ed Sullivan). To all the Jerrys and Jackies and Buddys...
...short of advocating military action). "No trade. No aid. No international recognition or role," warned British Prime Minister John Major. Acting U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger said Serbia must make peace or pay "what we will ensure is an unacceptable price for aggression." The warnings brought at least lip service from the Serbs. They promised to open all prison camps and return about a fifth of the 70% of Bosnia-Herzegovina they have seized...
...biggest sham in the modern history of the country," says Kentucky delegate Al Brown, pausing to cheer for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp. "The Democratic party has no greater love for African-Americans than does the Republican party. However, they have given all of the lip service, all of the unworkable social programs...
...movement should "focus attention on the abortion issue, because it would split the Democratic Party, while hardly affecting the Republican vote." Paradoxically, the very decision they hated -- Roe v. Wade -- gave these political operatives the cover they needed: so long as that ruling was in effect, Republicans could give lip service to a "right to life" without facing immediate consequences. But with Roe endangered, the prospect of legislatures' having to debate the whole matter over again is daunting. The preference for choice, even among those opposed to abortion, is clear in the polls. Young Republicans do not have...
...later, the legacy of communist rule has proved difficult to erase. Democrats may be in control of the tip of the pyramid of power, but the middle levels are still dominated by bureaucrats from the old nomenklatura, who may have taken down their portraits of Lenin but pay only lip service to the new regime. In a show of strength last month, a coalition of hard-line communists and extreme nationalists tried to occupy Moscow's main television studio. Now party members have gone to court to try to repeal Yeltsin...