Word: wallops
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...HUMAN COMEDY. William Saroyan's novel of homespun Americana packed little wallop as the book for this pop cantata, but the profligate melodiousness of Galt MacDermot's score and a dozen engaging actors just about sent audiences humming and floating out of the theater...
Alan Simpson of Wyoming, a popular and witty conservative, easily won election as majority whip. But two Northeastern moderates, Rhode Island's John Chafee and Pennsylvania's John Heinz, nosed out Western Conservatives Jake Garn of Utah and Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming for the chairmanships of the Republican Conference of the Senate and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which serve as the party caucus and fund-raising arm, respectively. Both men are notably less conservative than McClure and Lugar. whom they replace. "The White House is not going to like it." said one moderate Republican Senator...
Kevin Jennings (Robert), whom. The Harvard Independent has lovingly described as a "spiritual Marxist" who doesn't live in Adams House and "doesn't give a shit," is excellent as usual. Jennings, his clipped, staccato lines and pregnant pauses packing an equally venomous wallop, superbly masters the complicated role of the misogynist husband/book publisher who is destined to live a life as unromantic as the books he rejects for publication...
...Senate! Shame on the Senate!" cried Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy after the upper chamber dropped the civil rights bill. Barry Goldwater stormed that because of haggling over the catch-all spending bill, Senators collectively were "beginning to look like jackasses"; his Republican colleague, Wyoming's Malcolm Wallop, wondered why the Arizonan had only said "beginning." In the House, Democrat James Jones embarrassed the G.O.P. by introducing a plan requiring Presidents to submit each year a budget proposal that is in balance, along with whatever unbalanced proposal that they might consider more realistic. "Phony!" shouted Robert Walker of Pennsylvania...
Republican Senator Wallop says that Casey supplied "all sufficient details for anybody to draw correct conclusions." He charges that some of his colleagues are expressing outrage now to hide their embarrassment at failing to appreciate the significance of Casey's testimony and to ask the CIA director probing questions...