Word: loyalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan and the unbudging Kemp were then joined by the entire G.O.P. congressional leadership. Among them was Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, a conservative and Reagan's closest friend on the Hill. Said Laxalt of the House defectors: "You're not loyal to the President unless you support the tax bill." "Wait a minute," said Kemp, who has presidential ambitions, "you don't have to be disloyal to the President to oppose the tax increase...
...fiscal controls on refiners and distributors of petroleum products. It seemed a small matter on which to bring down a government, but the Socialists took the defeat symbolically because it was caused by about 30 Christian Democrat Deputies, the so-called franchi tiratori, or snipers, who, although ostensibly loyal to the government, voted secretly against the measure. "Under these conditions," fumed Socialist Leader Bettino Craxi, "the country is literally ungovernable. Democracy is forced on its knees if powerful pressure groups can prevail over the will of Parliament and the general interest...
...ites here will welcome them with open arms. The Shi'ites are not saying anything these days. They are waiting for the Iranian army to get here before they show their true feelings." All the commanders at the first line of Iraq's land defenses are loyal members of Saddam's Baath Party, and the men they command all belong to the Sunni sect, the ancient rivals of the Shi'ites...
...loyal Horatio, Stephen Lang is, like his two immediate predecessors on these boards, passable but bland--a far cry from the exemplary Horatio that Earle Hyman gave us here in 1958. In a traditional doubling, Michael Allinson is effective both as the possibly angelic, possibly diabolic Ghost (supported by amplified heartbeats) and as the First Player. Coe has solved the seeming redundancy of the dumb-show and play-within-a-play by conflating the two. While some of the brightly-garbed troupe of thespians mime the action, the First and Second Players forgo reciting their lines in favor of singing...
...have a government of faceless, anonymous individuals, dictating irrational, unworkable and sometimes insane policies that no one is really responsible for. And a "loyal opposition" in Congress all for eager to rubber-stamp these policies, as long as they can sign their names to those bills that represent pork barrel to their constituents, and support the rest...anonymously. Perhaps the next step will be a government of total anonymity, for which voters will select nameless candidates--Brand A or Brand B--on the basis of unattributed empty slogans and hollow promises, and anonymous records of supporting shameful legislation. The identities...