Word: biliousness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Safire is scrupulously forthcoming about the liberties he has taken. Historians may still grumble. But the only charge of excess that sticks is that the author, who has mongered a few scandals himself, appears to have had too much fun filching haloes from heroes and relishing the bilious style of the Republic's pioneer hatchet...
...openly negative, let alone angry. The fear of being dubbed a negative campaigner clearly stymied Steve Forbes. He waited to unleash his trademark you're-not-a-real-conservative ads against Bush. When Bush fought back, it was in muted tones; he referred to the bilious ads Forbes ran against Bob Dole in 1996, but did not challenge the tycoon directly...
...fact, one reason writers become writers in the first place is to enable them to look more decent and honorable in print than they ever could in person. It's a bad lot on the whole--petty, nasty, bilious, suffused with envy and riddled with fear. Myself excluded, of course. And that fathead, Shakespeare...