Word: banana
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...patriarchal, dysfunctional family. Not only does the Senate have all the institutionalized forms of sexism common in the corporate suite, but by dint + of its privileges and power it is one of the few places where acting like a cross between a rock star and the dictator of a banana republic is tolerated. One of the sessions during orientation for congressional spouses is on how to live with a celebrity. It's an atmosphere, says former Missouri Lieutenant Governor Harriett Woods, who now heads the National Women's Political Caucus, where "Senators prey on women as if they were groupies...
...stories varies, from Guyana, its towns "smiling...with rotting teeth"; to London, a city of secrets where neither men, women nor buildings are what they appear to be. Melville even includes a rather maladroit cliche, in "I Do Not Take Messages from Dead People"--where a small socialist banana republic overflows with corrupt politicians...
...sort of nostalgic novelty. "Success is like a one-armed bandit," observes Pierre Dinand, a French designer who has created more than 300 perfume bottles, including those for SpellBound and Escape. "To succeed, you need to have a row of cherries. If you have four cherries and one banana, it's a flop...
...also see the launch of Omar Sharif's signature scent for women, which will come in at $750 an ounce. For this whopping sum the customer gets a Baccarat crystal flacon and two refills a year for her life -- or the perfume's. Who knows? Four cherries and a banana? Or maybe a five-cherry...
...Nikita Khrushchev's suits. Its secret has never been intelligence but rather ruthlessness. The cardinal rule of coupmaking, says Edward Luttwak of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, is "to seize control of all the centers of power in one fell swoop, to paralyze the situation." Even banana republics know this. The Gang of Eight was inexplicably though mercifully inept. Perhaps the conspirators picked up some debilitatingly humane manners during the Gorbachev era. They did not launch a coup but proffered a sort of half-coup, saying complimentary things about Gorbachev and holding out the possibility of working...