Word: rumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...selection, the navy and air force declared that they would no longer take part in the junta's political decisions. That left the army in sole control for the first time since the military took power in 1976, but it also turned the army into a kind of rump political force. Asserting that it had "assumed the political conduct of the national government," the army promised unenthusiastically that it would return Argentina to civilian rule by "the first months...
...that budget deficits would rise far beyond the optimistic projections that Stockman was presenting. (Ironically, so did Stockman, but at that point he was telling only the Atlantic Monthly.) The five were too afraid of being intimidated by Stockman to speak up in Cabinet meetings. Instead, they formed a rump group that met three times in July to voice their complaints to selected presidential aides. They never did get through to Reagan; Murray Weidenbaum, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, intended to carry their views to the President, but by then Reagan was hearing the same thing from Stockman...
Order certainly was not what Walesa faced when he returned to the unruly Solidarity meeting, which had continued in rump session while he was taking part in the discussions in Warsaw. There was still a touch of the mutinous mood when Walesa took the podium to make a report. Said he: "The authorities have stated that they are prepared to undertake talks on all problems important for the Poles." But he warned that Jaruzelski expected both sides to make compromises...
...programmer, Mrs. Prickley has a record at least as distinguished as Fred Silverman's. Among her winners: The Sammy Maudlin Show, a Caballero-in-spired festival of show-biz glitz presided over by a rump-bussing host and a couple of regular guests, Entertainer Lola Heatherton, whose specialty is a piercing rendition of New York, New York, and Funnyman Bobby Bittman, whose jokes are as tarnished as his gold chains; and The Great White North, a public service program in which two dim-bulb brothers, Bob and Doug McKenzie, swill brew, cook back bacon and discuss such issues...
Given the transformation of the pre-teen rump into a sex symbol in dozens of designer-jeans ads, and the popularity of "nymphet" models on Madison Ave., staging the book that coined that term once again was more good commercial sense than homage to Nabokov. Although capitalizing on this latest fashion in exploitation shouldn't have to mean joining in gleefully, through much of Lolita that's what Albee seems to be doing. Where Nabokov will choose an elegant pun, Albee lunges for the obscene gag: where Nabokov will subtly makes you think about the arbitrariness of social rules, Albee...