Word: poppycock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...huge thank-you to White for his excellent article on White House deputy counsel Cheryl Mills' holding a mirror to the G.O.P. record on civil rights in her defense of Clinton. I heard House Republican Bob Barr on a talk show claiming he doesn't hate the President. Poppycock! Of course he hates Clinton. The horrendous hypocrisy of this entire matter was exactly as White stated. Why should lying about sex be worse than lying about something far worse--racial bigotry? SCOTT GADDEN North Myrtle Beach...
...which N.T. Wright replies: poppycock. "He kicks the ball back into his own net by mistake," Wright booms. "He's putting the clocks back to the 1890s, when the Germans said that all this historical Jesus nonsense shows we shouldn't be trying to find the Jesus behind the Gospels...
...last 24 hours may have current and former Clinton Administration officials fidgeting behind their desks. The Washington Times reports thatIndependent Counsel Kenneth Starris focusing on Clinton aides Bruce Lindsey and Betsey Wright in a probe of the Whitewater land deal's finances. (Wright called the Times story "poisonous poppycock and unfounded balderdash.")TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratansays both were involved in one of Starr's longtime targets -- the financing of Clinton's 1984 and 1990 gubernatorial campaigns. Meanwhile, Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee have sent a letter to Starr requesting a probe of testimony by Clinton advisersGeorge Stephanopoulosand Harold...
Brazzaville Beach can be enjoyed as a superior suspense yarn: Will our heroine, who is no crusader but merely following scientific principles, prevail against the murderous plots of an evil genius defending his golden poppycock eggs? In fact that statement can be made without condescension, because swift and artful pacing is the novel's strongest quality. With his five earlier books, Boyd, 39, has gained an enviable reputation as an intellectual who wears his learning lightly, when he does not toss it aside completely. Stars and Bars was a smart send-up of both British and American roads to corruption...
...TIME contributor) Michael Kinsley broadly hinted that Choate, despite his denials, was engaging in "McCarthyism" with "his easy accusations of disloyalty, his imagery of infection of the body politic, his woozy mixture of falsehoods, half-truths and exaggerations." Hobart Rowen, a Washington Post columnist, called Choate's theories "pure poppycock...