Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...superior, who then passes his reports on to a departmental reviewing officer, who in turn presents his recommendations to the reviewing boards. While no one in the department argues that incompetents should not be winnowed out, the feeling is that the rating system has deteriorated into an endless round of pettifoggeries and petty jealousies, where too frequently the men who do not play up to their superiors' vanities wind up on the short...
...Senator's brother, William F. Buckley Jr., mandarin editor of the National Review, delivered an extraordinary speech in Manhattan that combined eloquence and caustic wit with touches of Chinese opera. Peking, he asserted, "struggles in its endless ordeal against human nature," and executed between 10 million and 50 million people "in the course of giving flesh to the thoughts of Mao Tse-tung." Taiwan, on the other hand, "is the West Berlin of China." The Chinese on Taiwan have a special mission, said Buckley, because "in the years and decades to come, their separated brothers on the mainland will look...
...make things worse, the musicians are all doomed to endless frustration. They never get paid, all the beer they drink is fake, and none of the groupies will have them, because touring has made them such pitiful wrecks. As Janet the groupie says when she first sees them. "Pop stars are so depressing when they been on the road for a long time and they finally get some action...
...fresh faced that she looks like a Clearasil testimonial. T.R. gets a job in the typing pool of some Kafkaesque neon-lit office. A friend finds her a date with an affluent racist, whom she fearlessly denounces. After that it is home to her crummy one-room apartment and endless nights falling asleep in front of the television...
...Carroll could be proud of. Nixon's Legal Coach blusters: "But we haven't even decided yet upon the exact nature of the charge--so how can they be innocent? Where is your evidence? Where is your proof?" Meanwhile Vice President What's-his-name is off on an endless tirade--"the psychotics, the sob sisters, the skin merchants, the saboteurs, the self-styled Sapphos, the self-styled Swinburnes, the swine, the satyrs, the schizos, the sodomists, the sissies, the screamers, the screwy, the scum"--against the enemies of the nation. When J. Edgar Heehaw is questioned on the details...