Word: lurches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...preparing for a bruising and perhaps fateful showdown this Sunday between the extremists and its old-line socialist faithful at the party conference in Brighton. Meanwhile the new Social Democratic Party, formed last March when a group of prominent Laborites broke away because of the party's leftward lurch, forged an alliance last week with the centrist Liberal Party. Object: to capture the moderate middle, Parliament and No. 10 Downing Street...
...wreak vengeance on their gorgeous mother Isabel, and their father's best friend from boyhood, whom they take to be the killers. Here, as elsewhere, the author has far more energy than her characters, who sag into torpor when she busies herself with other scenes and lurch groggily back into motion when she summons them again...
...endangering the survival of their strained coalition. The Communist Party, which had supported Mitterrand in the final round of the presidential contest, was clamoring for Cabinet posts as the price of past and future votes. France's allies, meanwhile, worried privately about the nation's seeming leftward lurch, even as they cabled formal congratulations to the President-elect...
...meets up with her friends down the road, and they cruise all night. Three carloads of drugged, glassy-eyed, wild-haired teenage girls lurch along dirt roads, frenetic music stimulating them like an electric cattle prod into disjointed spasms. Snaporaz eventually flees, panicked, into the pleasure palace of Dr. Xavier Zuberkock, an aging Bacchanalian who calls to mind the incoherent but dynamic Mynheer Peeperkorn of Mann's Magic Mountain...
Many Labor moderates are opting -for now-to remain with the party. More than 100 M.P.s have openly pledged to stay and fight the left. But fears are high; 34 Labor peers in the House of Lords sent a letter to Foot expressing their concern over Labor's lurch to the left. Some unions are now afraid that they have played into the hands of the militants...