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...Tracey Ullman), her befuddled lover (Sting) and two of her husband's superiors in the diplomatic corps (John Gielgud and Ian McKellen)--have delicious verbal turns of their own. Among its other virtues, Plenty is the year's funniest film, to those with a taste for English mandarin scorn: the word unspoken, the sneer barely repressed, euphemism as an act of smart-club malice...
Despite his declared identification with the literati and his scorn for the "layers upon layers of cheap nightclub hypocrisy," Townshend writes more about cheap sex and drinking bouts than about great ideas or great thinkers...
...scorn was clear in Ronald Reagan's voice. "The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug," he said of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, "did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. He made his choice long ago." The President was speaking last week at a fund raiser in Oklahoma City, but his real audience was members of Congress who were once again considering the resumption of aid to the contra rebels struggling against Ortega's Sandinista regime...
Downing Street's reaction was one of carefully orchestrated scorn. A senior Thatcher aide dismissed Pym as a "rejected" minister making one last effort to achieve the party leadership. As for the C.C.F., said the aide, it is "enormously long on criticism and extremely short on prescriptions, except to spend more money...
...Establishment scorn heaped on Reagan's proposal for antiballistic missile defense could easily a mountain range. A year after Reagan proposed the Star Wars concept, the New York Times derided the system in any form as patently useless: "Since even minor holes in any defense would risk millions of deaths, no system is worth having unless it works almost perfectly. And since it could never be fully tested, perfection is unattainable...