Word: wings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...German right-wing radicals, the incendiary of choice is the Molotov cocktail. Instead of hitting their target and burning out, however, the ones hurled two weeks ago in Rostock have continued to spray sparks across Germany: at week's end, more than 150 attacks on asylum-seeking foreigners had been registered since the mayhem began. In Ketzin, 10 miles from Berlin, 44 Auslander barely escaped with their lives when the building they inhabited was razed by torch throwers. Official calls for special police powers to confront the skinheads and neo-Nazis did not seem to deter anyone. Although there...
Chancellor Helmut Kohl deplored the mayhem as "a disgrace for our nation," but it is far from unusual. Violent right-wing incidents -- mostly against foreigners -- jumped almost sevenfold last year to nearly 1,500, a recent federal report found...
...BOTTOM LINE: A sly musical comedy about a cynical right-wing politician is a tonic for jaded liberals...
...surely made for Bob Roberts, a right-wing minstrel running for the Senate against a liberal incumbent named Brickley Paiste (and played by Gore Vidal, whose 1960 drama, The Best Man, addressed similar campaign compromises). With the help of a Mephistophelian campaign boss (Alan Rickman) and a mostly fawning corps of TV anchors (James Spader, Peter Gallagher, Susan Sarandon, Pamela Reed), Bob will do anything to get elected. Power is something a fellow could nearly...
...G.O.P.'s conservative wing suffers a mid-life crisis that threatens its future -- as well as the party...