Word: swipes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter, said to have been handed to Berlinguer by a Soviet embassy official in late December, begins "Dear Comrades" and signs off with "Fraternal Greetings"-but that is the extent of the cordiality. Taking a swipe at the inde pendent Polish unions, the message accuses Berlinguer's party of disloyalty for siding with them. The P.C.I. 's December communique, it noted, did not "support the socialism that actually exists in Poland but shows solidarity with those forces that have unleashed a real and serious offensive against Polish socialism." Sounding a familiar chord, the Soviet party leadership wondered...
Actually, Has "Washington" Legs? seems more like two plays. Act I, which concerns the planning meeting for the movie organized by the Film Institute of the United States and the Film Institute of the United Kingdom and its hapless representative, Joe Veriato, takes a long satirical swipe at the movie industry, with a representative collection of fools: Mickey Boorman and Pat Sligo, two pot-smoking "New Wave" filmmakers from L.A.; Carl Dorf, a self-exiled victim of McCarthyism; Dan Rashur, the wunderkind director with the Colgate smile; Sy Joelmersbagger, a tweedy history professor from Yale; and Sir Flute Parsons...
...time period. But despite the higher taxes, the Carter Administration still opposed significant tax reduction. Said Carter: "I continue to believe that large inflationary individual income tax cuts are neither appropriate nor possible today, however popular they might appear in the short run." That was a not-so-subtle swipe at Reagan's campaign pledge to cut personal taxes 30% over three years...
...meet the challenge, he said, the U.S. must build closer ties to its allies with a policy stressing "balance" and "reliability." Taking a swipe at the Carter Administration's handling of foreign affairs, Haig said, "It must be clear that effective policy cannot be created anew daily, informed solely by the immediate need...
...formidable figure will grace the sides of 30 or more 18-wheelers, along with the Slogan FOLLOW ME TO TENNESSEE. Parton was on hand at a Nashville truck stop to christen her first rolling billboard. Hefting a bottle of champagne over her head, she took a ladylike swipe at the monster rig and ... nothing happened. She swung again. No luck. And again. This time the bottle shattered on the asphalt lot. Coolly, Parton borrowed a wineglass and splashed some bubbly on target. The truckers all cheered, and one asked if she had a CB handle. "Not really," chirped the interstate...