Word: stuffs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...remaining two sketches are made of slimmer stuff, but the cast is so good that it gives away Simon's secret: how people guard themselves against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune with a jest...
...Jimmy's got an image problem, Rosalynn," Jordan said gently. "We used to be the new face. Now we're the old face, the Establishment. Jimmy's got to get off this tactical stuff, all this talk about how many delegates he's got. He sounds too political...
...ideas people talked about were not all that focused. I can't remember what most demonstrations were about. It shows how profoundly significant it was. There was a lot of bogus stuff," Garrett said...
...discussion with an embarrassed Kennedy-liberal while the president sat on the toilet. And, she includes an awesome account of the haggard man who tiptoed down to the situation room of the White House at 3 a.m. to see how his war was progressing. It's all interesting stuff; in fact, there's enough for Kearns to write an intriguing Book-of-the-Month-Club story about her life with...
Pluperfect Egomaniac. The Company of the title, naturally, is the CIA, a political genie that Congress is even now trying to stuff back into some sort of legislative bottle. As the book develops, dynastic rivalries between Presidents and parties are less fierce than continuing an almost mortal combat between the White House and the CIA. The dark deed that makes the plot boil, in fact, is a political murder, secretly ordered by Democratic President William Arthur Curry and carried out by the CIA on a Latin American beachhead (here called Rio de Muerte) easily identifiable as the Bay of Pigs...