Word: tinpot
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...Office. Nor will I miss the policies, from the self-righteous "gays in the military" gambit, to Hillary's baggy monster of a health care plan, to Clinton's recklessly risk-averse foreign policy, which conducted cowardly "virtual wars" from the skies above Belgrade and Baghdad, while coddling a tinpot dictator in Pyongyang and a collection of tyrants in Beijing. Nor, finally, will I miss the hangers-on and toadies who filled the Clinton White House, and who increasingly came to resemble a dysfunctional mob family--the Corleones or the Sopranos, by way of Little Rock and the Democratic Leadership...
Well, I leave at 300 for South Africa, where I'm going to be working on a movie for Brace Beresford called. "The good Man in Africa," with scan Cannery. It's a very satirical look at post-colonial British diplomats in a West African tinpot dictatorship. And I'm coming back for 48 hours for ArtsFirst. So if I can come back all the way from South Africa, just tell those freshmen they can come over from Wigglesworth. (Laughs...
...remote and irrelevant British colony 400 miles off the Argentine coast. The House of Commons reverberated with cries of "Resign!" Thatcher boldly dispatched a task force, which grew to more than 100 vessels, to the windswept South Atlantic. It was a 19th century show of force against "a tinpot dictator," as the British haughtily described Argentine President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri...
...neither the musical erudition of Britain's Ernest Newman nor the impeccable taste of that other musical iconoclast, George Bernard Shaw. Mencken's ears were pretty well shut to the 20th century: Stravinsky, he insisted, "never had a musical idea in his life," and Schoenberg was a "tinpot revolutionist" dealing in "cacophony." But he knew the music of the great 19th century German symphonists almost note-perfectly, and he regarded them with an awe curious in a man so intoxicated with words. He once wrote to a friend: "I'd rather have written the first movement...
...bullet wounds, stuffed in the trunk of the soon-to-be-abandoned car belonging to a disgruntled general named Juan Tomás Diaz. Outlived among the world's strongmen by Portugal's milder Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Trujillo had been the model for every tinpot, medal-jingling dictator that ever rifled a Latin American treasury. Even as he died, he was on a typical Trujillo mission-a midnight meeting with one of his many mistresses, Moni Sanchez, at his San Cristóbal farm, 15 miles from Ciudad Trujillo...