Word: messing
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...from Israelis for giving up power. Said the English-language Jerusalem Post: "He has done a service to the nation by his act. It will help clarify the standards of rectitude that the nation expects from its public officials." Rabin, however, left his government in a constitutional and political mess. Technically, he could not resign; that is against Israeli law. When he called for elections last December, Rabin became head of a caretaker government; now he cannot abdicate that responsibility. Explained an Israeli legal expert: "Even if the government allowed Rabin to take a 'vacation'-which would...
...catch that it was the first listing and you probably missed it yes yes yes yes did you catch that it was a reference not so subtle to Joyce and Mary Albert at the same time will anybody ever talk to me again after this mess that's taking me about as much time to write as you think it must be taking me to write it none of your business anyway how long it takes for me to write this like I said last week read the Real Paper or Harry's column Chris in the library Pollak...
...look at it as though it were a piece of tin needing to be put someplace, but in the back of your mind you always hope you don't get involved in some mess...
...being dismissed as another middle-class crime caper. But unlike Dick and Jane. Crook yields to no glibness. no gags, no cheap shots at the System. Goretta's comedy arises from sharp but sympathetic observation of the ways in which ordinary, well-meaning people stumble into one sad mess after another. Christopher Porterfield
Guilty or not, the Polanski contretemps reveals much about the cocaine-snorting, "anything goes" sexuality of "the new Hollywood." While the movie community has largely kept silent, Polanski's boss at Columbia Pictures admits they have a "mess" on their hands. "Roman's got such a bad reputation for being a pervert film maker," laments Columbia Production Executive Bill Tennant, "he's going to be judged guilty by his work...