Word: unctious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mooradian and Bamberger give humorous, tour de force performances. As the ineptly scheming Ko-Ko, Mooradian is an outrageously unctious dirty old man, ogling the school girls, or melting in paroxysms of fright when he finds himself imperiled or actually called upon to perform his duty as executioner...
...have a hand in the formulation of a new government. Now, a student council with support from 43 percent of undergraduates is deemed legitimate. Assuming that most of the meaningful issues the nascent council will confront will bring it into conflict with administrators or the Faculty, the unctious desire to appease both these groups shown by the constitution's framers at every step casts doubt on the new council's potential for furthering student interests...