Word: woodenhead
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speechwriter and grand vizier to Freeland's President, a gifted though alcoholic giant named Hannibal Hannibalsson. After 20 years of ever decreasing coherence, Hannibalsson breaks a solemn promise to retire and runs for, or lurches blearily toward, a fifth five-year term. Can he win? His opponent is a woodenhead, and being booze-soaked is no bar to high office, since that is pretty much the permanent condition of most of the population. But Hannibalsson's administration has embittered Freeland's young people by severely limiting the amount of rock 'n' roll played on the national radio station. Opposition coalesces...