Word: patronizer
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...though they do not wear earplugs or play deep in the woods. They go deep into dance halls, beer parlors, Communions and bar mitzvahs, inflicting Tico Tico and Hava Nagila with relentless merriment, not to say total disregard for euphony. It is their way of paying homage to their patron, St. Lawrence of Welk, but in fact they only irritate St. Andreas of Fault...
Gonzo: Gonzo was always an perservering muppet. No matter how many times he got blasted out of a canon, he still bounced back. Gonzo is the patron saint of QRR failures and Crimson compers...
...military might one day support a power shift in the Kremlin organized by civilians. It might then step in to support either a new, tougher defense policy forced from Gorbachev or a promising candidate to replace him. But first, says Meyer, the generals would have to "find a patron," because no such alternative is in sight...
...President Mengistu Haile Mariam, who continues to battle Eritrean secessionists in the north and two rebel armies in Tigre province. As Soviet aid withers, Arab countries are increasing their military and economic assistance to the Eritreans, who claim to be running up military gains. In search of a new patron, Mengistu re-established diplomatic relations with Israel last November after a 16-year hiatus. Now dozens of Ethiopian officers are being trained in Israel, which is also providing Mengistu with small arms...
...calculated disorder named Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev. He calls what he is doing -- and permitting -- a revolution. His has (so far) been a bloodless revolution, without the murderous, conspiratorial associations that the word has carried in the past. In novel alliance with the glasnost of world communications, Gorbachev became the patron of change: Big Brother's better twin. His portraits, like icons at a saint's-day festival, waved amid a swarm of Czechs. The East German young chanted "Gorby! Gorby!" to taunt the police...