Word: spiros
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...SPIRO AGNEW BUSTED AT LAST...
...least the marble was unblemished. Twenty-two years after he resigned the vice presidency in disgrace, having pleaded no contest to tax-evasion charges, SPIRO AGNEW finally had his graven image added to the Capitol's gallery of Vice Presidents. Richard Nixon's onetime right-hand man was pleased with the honor-and with the likeness, which he said captured what "pundits" called his "squinty little eyes and mastodonic nose." He also noted that "the honor has less to do with Spiro Agnew than the honor I held." About 300 guests turned up for the unveiling, including some...
...resigned. General Alexander Haig, Haldeman's successor as White House chief of staff, finally got Solicitor General Robert Bork to do the job, and so the "Saturday Night Massacre" ended, leaving the Nixon Administration a shambles. (In the midst of all this, it was almost incidental that Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned under fire for having taken graft and that he was replaced by Michigan Congressman Gerald Ford...
...example, by novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand. But in response to the anti-authoritarianism of the young radicals, the right suddenly restyled itself as the defender of authority in all its manifestations -- legal, familial, religious and military. "Traditional values" made their first tentative debut in the '68 Republican campaign, when Spiro Agnew promised to cure social unrest with a mass spanking. It was in '68 that a "New Right" -- toughened with the grass- roots racism of George Wallace, fortified intellectually by the neoconservatives -- emerged to uphold the traditional icons of God, family and flag...
Mamet intends to examine the pathetic underside of society, a stratum playwrights tend to ignore. In the process, however, he delivers a play that is as redundant and empty as their lives. Director Spiro Veloudos, whose sense for dialogue and dialect is keen, unfortunately fails to impact energy and drive to a script that requires much...