Word: shatter
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...GROW UP. In Britain, Monty Python's Flying Circus tossed music-hall bawdry into a Dada format, and at home National Lampoon updated sick humor with a stinging Wasp edge. They were vicious; they were silly; they couldn't care less. And now someone had to shatter the lulling cadences of stand-up too. Who better than the child of Disneyland and Wittgenstein...
Although resigning under fire can shatter a life, a number of Reagan appointees have prospered, their alleged transgressions being considered an occupational hazard in a dirty business. Richard Allen, who resigned amid reports that he had received a $1,000 "honorarium" from a Japanese journalist after setting up an interview with the First Lady, has a plethora of Japanese and Taiwanese clients for his Washington consulting business...
...former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara puts it, a credible deterrence presupposes a believable command and control structure. Aaron's concern is that C 3 is the Achilles' heel of America's capacity to respond. "Deterrence is like fine crystal," he says. "It's tough, but brittle and can shatter...
...governor said he hoped that this week has helped "to shatter stereotypes that blind others to what...
...linked, and none have a political agenda. Many of their battles with the comrades come down to generational conflicts. Says Wilfried Scharf, a lecturer at Cape Town University's Institute of Criminology: "The clashes between the vigilantes and the comrades are indicative of the youth movement's attempts to shatter the older generation's power." To that extent the feuding is, quite literally and tragically, a battle between fathers and sons...