Word: politicoes
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...expanded far beyond the cartoonist's drawing board and become a minor genre of the arts. Documentary Film Maker Emile de Antonio has compiled MilLHouse (TIME, Oct. 18), a wickedly derisive splicing of Nixoniana. Novelist Richard Condon (The Manchurian Candidate) has come forth with The Vertical Smile, a politico-sexual farce whose hero, Duncan Mulligan, is a Wall Street lawyer, transvestite and presidential candidate known, lest anyone miss the point, as "Funky Dune...
...since John Maynard Keynes, Dean Acheson, Henry Morgenthau and politico-economic experts from 45 other countries huddled in the little New Hampshire resort town of Bretton Woods in 1944 has there been a monetary meeting like the one convening in Washington this week. John Connally, the tough but still charming Texan, will be there as the chief attraction, if one can put it that way. So will assorted treasury chiefs, finance ministers and central bankers-France's Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Germany's Karl Schiller, Italy's Guido Carli. Like their predecessors at Bretton...
...knows his or her political power base well, and has gleaned his success from the existing electorate is not going to be particularly anxious to have it undergo a drastic expansion, an expansion whose political direction can be a highly volatile and uncontainable quantity, whose interests, as one politico put it, "don't exactly coincide with those of the existing parastructure...
...remain together, vote as a bloc, and stay out of the politico stuff, we will have both political parties bending over backward to get our vote...
Wyatt Earp becomes a craven politico who packs a long-barreled six-gun and a highly pragmatic regard for justice...