Word: malarkey
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...notion that all workers are members of the affluent American middle class and have all got it made is just so much malarkey," he said...
...Malarkey. A bland, stocky native of Kensett (pop. 905), Democrat Mills, 58, maintains that the tax bill is not languishing in his committee because of his personal opposition. "The Administration," he told TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil last week, "can have a vote any time. The fact is that they don't have the votes to pass the bill in the House. If I wanted to, I couldn't pass it." Congressional liaison men from the White House and legislative leaders of both parties agree that the House overwhelmingly opposes the tax bill. Republican Leader Jerry Ford believes that...
Howard Cutler had nice moments as Romelio, the moneygrubbing pushy brother. He was properly incestuous with his sister and properly encouraging to her suitors. But Romelio is a cynic. He thinks omnipotent dieties don't exist and the aristocracy is a lot of malarkey. The power that operates in the world is a person with money. So he's up tight: if his money disappears, he does too. Cutler's movements onstage didn't convey that anxiety. They had a student looseness that suggested--Every-thing's OK, baby...
Aiken, formerly a Harvard professor, did not disagree only with Rendell. He also attacked Thomas Boylston Adams, candidate for the Senate, who earlier in the evening advocated negotiations. "That is malarkey," Aiken roared. "We have two choices: fight or withdraw...
...master of the many-splendored art of Irish malarkey was Flann O'Brien, pseudonymous author of At Swim-Two-Birds. Flann O'Brien was one of the pen names of Brian O'Nolan, wit, playwright and civil servant. Under the name of Myles na gCopaleen, he wrote a satirical column for the Irish Times; he died in Dublin on April 1. But in all three identities, he was a great kidder. At Swim, first published in London in 1939 and twelve years later in New York, has since gathered a subterranean reputation-and thus this new edition...