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...rejection of the incumbents. "The Liberal Party had become too remote, too arrogant," says George Perlin, professor of political science at Queens University at Kingston, Ont. Editorialized the Toronto Sun the day after the ballot: "The people didn't speak, they bellowed, then chewed up the Liberals and spit them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada Changes Course | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...Metro, Paradise, and Spit round out the concert scene, and the three are the most established in the area, because they are run by the biggest music strongman in town...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Lots Of Sweet, Lots of Tunes | 6/24/1984 | See Source »

...Vice President or a bad Vice President?a Vice President is simply a hypothesis on hold. John Nance Garner, Vice President in Franklin Roosevelt's first two terms, said that the office "isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss"?a phrase the listening reporter bowdlerized to "warm spit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Not a Woman? | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

...position by coming down on the floor and getting involved in hand-to-hand combat." No one could recall a House Speaker ever having been thus reprimanded. (The only known precedent was in 1798, when the House was debating the expulsion of Vermont's Matthew Lyon, who had spit in the face of a fellow member. After an explosive exchange, Speaker Jonathan Dayton challenged another member to a duel. Dayton, who was indicted for treason nine years later, along with Aaron Burr, was called to order for improper utterances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tip Topped! | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...decide whether it can be distributed throughout the Soviet Union and overseas. Yevtushenko insists he will make no cuts. "I won't change anything now," he says. "I will not give in to censorship. If you give one finger to censorship, it will swallow your whole body and spit out bits of your flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Poet Takes to the Screen | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

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