Word: wimp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WIMP FACTOR 14 Ankle Deep (Harriet CD) They're from Pittsburgh. Their main instruments are an electric guitar, a ukelele, and sometimes found objects instead of drums. One of the songs seems to be about a guy who can't seem to win at Stratego. Others are called "Tale of the Loophole Guy," "How to Avoid Losing Small Objects," and "(It's OK to Work For) Rockwell International." The next They Might Be Giants? No way: Wimp Factor 14 is immeasurably better, less fake, more felt, and smarter than any of its obvious comparisons. The tunes are real tunes...
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This is the key to understanding the amazing transmutation of cold war and Gulf War doves into Bosnia hawks: their deep suspicion of motives of national interest. In a recent debate, Anthony Lewis called George Bush a "gutless wimp" for letting the Serbs overrun Bosnia. It was pointed out that the gutless wimp took half a million Americans to war to liberate Kuwait. "Yes," replied Lewis triumphantly, "he did because of oil, O-I-L, the famous three- letter word." Any wimp, you see, can go to war for some vital national interest. Real men go to war for reasons...
Richard Darman said last October (using the Washington Post's Bob Woodward as his courier) that the "read my lips" pledge was a campaign maneuver, urged by Roger Ailes to counter the picture of Bush as a wimp. Bush resisted making a dubious pledge, but once it was made, once his manhood was vindicated by it, he could abandon the pledge only at his peril. If he did not break it, one tool was denied him in coping with mounting interest payments on the deficit (which doubled in Bush's years). If he did break it, his macho moment became...
...send the President a message. The Republican Party and George Bush got in trouble when they moved to the left, when they signed on with the civil rights bill with its quotas and the tax increases. He let down people who elected him. And so he then attracts the Wimp II image...