Word: tackiest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people who once supported Carter, the draft-Kennedy forces claimed their candidate would do the spanking. In one of the tackiest political displays on record, Dade Country Democratic chairman Mike Abrams, a onetime Carter supporter recently claimed Carter had left "too many broken promises." The blacks, the Jews and even the Hispanic vote will go against Carter, he predicted. "The Cubans think Carter is weak; they want a macho man, like Kennedy." In the glee of the moment it seems they forgot Florida is not Kennedy Country...
...suffer from it. But that's how life is." Born the son of a horse trainer in Ireland, raised in a thick atmosphere of decayed gentility and Sinn Fein violence, flung out of home at 16 for making love to the grooms, drifting into Berlin and the tackiest pits of Weimar decadence, changing addresses almost as often as shirts, surviving in an utterly provisional manner as unsuccessful interior decorator in Germany, as professional gambler in England, Bacon is a very English figure - in some ways a modern (and untitled) type of the Restoration libertine and wit, Lord Rochester...