Word: relishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such are the stars of Spitting Image, the British television program in which some 400 latex and foam-rubber puppets reduce the antics of the powerful to a mess of funny faces, pratfalls and spasmodic jerks. Breaking satirical ground and television rules with equal relish, the weekly show regularly strings along almost one in every four British men, women and children...
Marcos may not relish his new legal status, but as a lawyer, he is interested. His chief Washington attorney, Stanton Anderson, describes him as "shocked by the cost of litigation" but also "fascinated by the legal issues." In his rented beachfront house in Honolulu, he told the New York Times last week that his days are now consumed by consultations with lawyers. "I intend to vindicate myself within my lifetime," he vowed. It remains to be seen whether a lifetime will be long enough...
This is a juicy subject for the nation's best-known conservative writer. With considerable relish and fluent wit, Buckley stirs a plot involving the treasonous activities of Britain's leading scientist and the Soviet-bred daughter of an American journalist. The amiable Oakes frequently gets lost in the flashbacks and Kremlinology, but that is to be expected. Buckley's bad guys always get more attention than his good guys...
...Regan privately chided Buchanan for rushing his blast into print without first getting White House approval. Buchanan protests, "I'm not suggesting that anyone on the Hill is a Communist. But I do say that this is a choice between the freedom fighters and the Sandinistas." He adds with relish, "This is politics as it should...
...Adolf Eichmann in 1961 to stand trial. Compared with Eichmann, who was executed for shipping millions of Jews to death camps, Demjanjuk was small fry in Hitler's genocide machine. A prisoner of war who switched sides and volunteered for the SS, he performed his camp duties with sadistic relish, according to court papers and Treblinka ; survivors. Critics in Israel question the purpose of trying Demjanjuk more than 40 years after his alleged crimes, but prosecutors are determined. They plan to stage an Eichmann-like trial, even using the glass booth that shielded the notorious Nazi...