Word: brass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coup plotters have taken advantage of the resulting frustration among the younger officers to organize against Aquino. According to Candido Filio, a military analyst with the University of the Philippines, Gringo Honasan did not need support from the top brass to launch last week's coup attempt. "He has been working the line of company commanders," says Filio. As it turned out, at least two generals joined the rebellion...
Since November 9, when citizens of East and West Berlin reveled on top of the Berlin Wall, there have been no victory orations in the United States. No parades through Washington. No brass bands. No elation. This is unfortunate, because in effect the country has been through a successful...
...would lead this crusade has the proper mettle -- or at least the proper brass -- for the job. He is none other than Tom Wolfe, apostle of the New Journalism, archaeologist of radical chic and, most recently, best-selling author of Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), which gleefully pilloried the greed and corruption of New York City life. Wolfe's summons to revolution, published in the November Harper's, pinpoints a new and surprising target: his fellow American novelists. This latest bonfire is already throwing off a lot of heat...
...million. A walk through the St. Moritz club car, lately a derelict on a siding in Milwaukee, with broken windows and a cargo of snow, made the figure plausible. The bar is black granite, the baby grand piano an ebony Baldwin. Walls are paneled in embossed dark green leather. Brass, art deco lamps match the brass soffit, a three-inch strip separating walls from a car-long mural of mountain peaks. The ceiling is a rich deep blue, night sky. The car is designed for night, with lamps turned down, and a pianist plays show tunes. Too much good taste...
...much more. Fat plaster cherubs, blue and gold velvet divans, pop-up televisions, living-room Jacuzzis surrounded by Corinthian columns and topped by mirrors, gold-painted toothbrushes, even bidets and brass DO NOT DISTURB signs. Boasts Trump: "You can go to London. You can go to Paris. You can go anywhere in the world. There are no suites comparable to the quality of these suites...