Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very different sort of one-man show has just opened this past Monday. Victor Borge, the "piano prince of comedy", sings, jokes, and plays --you guessed it-- his piano. Go; join the legion of Borge fans as you sink in laughter over the man's routines. At the Colonial; call...
...said he would vacate his long-held seat, about a dozen state politicos started to cash in on old political debts and plan their bids for the most prestigious political post in Mississippi. Mississippians, meanwhile, braced themselves for more of the same cliches and hackneyed phrases that echoed in past campaigns...
Finch's defeat in the run-off election in the Democratic primary has destroyed--for the time being at least--any speculating about a new kind of color-blind populism in Mississippi. In the wake of his defeat, Finch appears more a burp from Mississippi's populist past than the harbinger of a new kind of politics. Nonetheless, it remains to be seen whether Finch's decline was due to the shakiness of his alleged political base or to the numerous political blunders Finch made during the first two years of his governorship--blunders that a more astute populist politician...
...Unlike past political races in Mississippi, Dantin's victory in the Democratic primary has not assured him a spot in the Senate. Strong challenges from a Republican and an Independent stand between Dantin and the Eastland legacy. Both Thad Cochran, a Republican Congressman, and Charles Evers, brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, plan to be spoilers...
...catch-all' approach--with recourse to all-American rhetoric instead of specialist knowledge (or even the atlas and history book) can only hinder, perhaps fatally, those campaigning for freer societies in the East. Avoiding the simplicity of error is the best monument to the victims, past, present and future, of the Gulag Archipelago...