The Theatrical Method in Putin’s Vote Madness
By Andrew Higgins
Russia’s constitutional “referendum” delivered its expected outcome — President Putin can serve until 2036 — but an elaborate spectacle of public affirmation was vital to his legitimacy.
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders has ended his presidential campaign, leaving former Joe Biden the Democratic party’s presumptive nominee.
When I asked Ammon Shea, the man who read the O.E.D., if he wanted to play a game of Dictionary sometime, he did me the favor of pretending I was sane.
“Do you have a specific dictionary in mind?” he wondered. “I would prefer Webster’s Third, if only because of all the bad blood between that edition and The Times.”
My primary life study has been about love. Second comes economics, so here, in the form of a few rules, is a little amalgam of the two fields: the economics of love. (I last wrote about this subject 20 years or so ago, and it’s time to update it.)
McCain Accepts a Hand From Bush, at Arm's Length
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- When President Bush ventured here for a private fundraiser with John McCain on Tuesday night, his first real campaign appearance with the presumptive GOP nominee, the event was closed to the news media and their only joint public appearance was a photo op on the airport tarmac...
(By Michael Abramowitz, Michael D. Shear and Jonathan Weisman, The Washington Post)
The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post all lead with Sen. Hillary Clinton's concession and solid endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama's candidacy for president. In what the NYT calls a "dramatic" and even "theatrical" 28-minute speech yesterday in Washington, she both painted her campaign into the arc of feminist history and exhorted her supporters to throw their weight behind the presumptive nominee, transitioning the campaign into full-on general election mode.
...and concluding with the arms and motto: - 'Principal seat, Kellynch Hall, in the county of Somerset,' and Sir Walter's handwriting again in this finale: - 'Heir presumptive, William Walter Elliot, Esq., great grandson of the second Sir Walter.'
West Point
According to archival records, the coat of arms and motto were adopted in 1898. Col. Charles W. Larned, professor of drawing, headed a committee to design a ...Chihuahuas come in a wide variety of colors, and two coat lengths.
hold/keep sb at arm's length
to not allow someone to become too friendly with you
I always had the feeling she was keeping me at arm's length.
coat:（動物の）毛，被毛；（植物の）（樹）皮
a special shield or shield-shaped pattern which is the sign of a family, university or city
- 1 Cコート，外套がいとう；((米))（スーツの）上着，ジャケット
- a coat
- スーツの上着
- a coat
- スカートスーツ
- 2 （動物の）毛，被毛；（植物の）（樹）皮
- coats
- タマネギの皮
- 3 表面をおおうもの；（ペンキなどの）塗り，めっき；（ほこりなどの）層
- coats
- 二度塗りしたペンキ
coatの慣用句・イディオム
- cut one's coat according to one's cloth
- ((英))分相応の［収入に合った］生活をする
- trail [drag] one's coat
- 挑戦的な態度を取る，けんかを売る（◆わざと上着のすそを引きずって歩き，すそを踏む者とは戦う用意があることを示したスコットランドの習慣から）
- turn [change] one's coat
- （特に政治上の）主義を変える，変節する，宗旨を変える
━━[動]他
- 1…に上着を着せる
- 2〈物（の表面）を〉（薄い膜で）おおう，…に（ペンキなどを）塗る，〈食品などを〉（…で）コーティングする，〈金属などを〉（…で）おおう，めっきする≪with≫，〈ほこりなどが〉〈物の〉表面をおおう
- スズでめっきした鉄
presumptive
(prĭ-zŭmp'tĭv)
adj.
- Providing a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance.
- Founded on probability or presumption.
pre・sump・tive
━━ a. 【法】推定の［に基づく］; 推定の根拠となる.coat of arms and motto校徽校訓
theatre (BEHAVIOUR) UK, US theater
noun [U]
insincere behaviour intended just to produce a particular effect or to attract attention:
Her tears were pure theatre.
theatrical
adjective
describes behaviour that is insincere and too extreme and that is intended to attract attention:
a theatrical gesturetheatre (PERFORMING ARTS) UK, US theater (the writing or performance of) plays, musicals or opera, written to be performed in public:
His latest play has delighted theatre audiences and theatre critics alike.
She made her career in the theatre.
theatrical
adjective
theatrical make-up
noun [S]
a combination of parts that create a complete whole:
The show was a wonderful amalgam of dance, music and drama.
Nearly every new parent feels an amalgam of joy and terror.━━ n. 【化】アマルガム ((水銀と他の金属との合金)); 混合物.
a・mal・ga・mate
━━ v. 水銀と混ぜる; 合同［融合］する［させる］.a・mal・ga・ma・tion n. アマルガム化; 合併; 混合.
bad blood
Anger or hostility between persons or groups, as in There's been bad blood between the two families for years.
This term is based on the old association with blood and emotion, particularly anger. Versions such as ill blood preceded it; Charles Lamb was among the first to use the idiom in its current form in an 1823 essay.
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