Word: prissier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Trick E. Dixon, his wife Fitter, Attorney General Malicious, Vice President What's-his-name and others, including Jacqueline Charisma Colossus. In Roth's manically scurrilous satire, Dixon stealthily retires to a bombproof White House locker room during a national crisis and suits up in his "Prissier College" football uniform to bolster his confidence. At times, the mimicry of Nixon's manner and cadences is brilliant. Alternating between the Swiftian and the sophomoric, Roth has Dixon assassinated by drowning in an oversized Baggie and ending up in Hell, running for the office of Devil against Satan...
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