What is more, the newspapers make no formal provisions for inculcating job or policy norms.

inculcate (v) : to teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; to urge on the mind [syn: instill; infuse; implant; engraft; impress] – source: News: A Reader, p. 88

For those who don’t want their paranoia ratcheted up a notch, or resist Thirteen’s exploitation (fetchingly nubile girls for the Humberts in the audience), Freaky Friday offers both schism and healing, a genuine safety zone for mother-daughter ”acting out”.

nubile (adj) : of an age suitable for marriage [syn: marriageable] – source: Oh, grow up

Lester was not the kind of writer whose prose was amenable to careful editing — there’s a reason one of his favorite words was ”emetic” — and there are plenty of occasions when whatever cocktail of uppers and downers was impersonating his muse led him right off the deep end into swirling streams of consciousness that would make even Jack Kerouac blanch.

emetic (n) : a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting [syn: {vomit}, vomitive, nauseant] – source: ”Some sliver of authenticity from the truckloads of stinking garbage”

Though she was baptized into the family business, literally, as an infant, playing Vito Corleone’s newborn grandson in the final scene of The Godfather, Coppola decided to check out other career opportunities after being excoriated, at age 18, for her portrayal of Michael Corleone’s young daughter Mary in The Godfather Part III (audiences cheered when her character was killed).

excoriate (v) : express strong disapproval of [syn: condemn, decry, objurgate] – source: Sofia’s Choice

”The Great Unraveling” is mostly a chronicle of malfeasance rather than a prescription for righting wrongs, but Krugman does propose some principles for dealing with Bush revolutionaries.

malfeasance (n) : a wrongful act that the actor had no right to do; improper professional conduct [syn: malpractice] – source: Why the N. Y. Times ruins Bush’s breakfast

Because the era in which Krugman honed his voice was also the era in which — he outlines in the introduction to his new book, ”The Great Unraveling” — American conservatives seized control of the U.S. government and, under cover of a rhetoric of ”compassion,” remade the nation’s finances, laws and foreign policy with unprecedented ideological zeal and putschlike audacity.

putsch (n) : a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force [syn: coup d’etat, coup, takeover] – source: Why the N. Y. Times ruins Bush’s breakfast

Is that all you blighters can do?

blighter (n) 1: a persistently annoying person [syn: pest, cuss, pesterer, gadfly] 2: a boy or man [syn: chap, fellow, feller, lad, gent, fella, cuss] – source: My Fair Lady (R2), 2:04:35

There’s one thing I can’t stand about you, your confounded complacency.

complacency (n) : the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself [syn: complacence, self-complacency, self-satisfaction] – source: My Fair Lady (R2), 1:35:10

It’s a crime for a man to go philanderin’ but with a little bit of luck, with a little bit of luck, you can see the bloodhound don’t find out.

philander (v) 1: have amorous affairs; of men [syn: womanize, womanise] 2: talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions [syn: chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, mash] – source: My Fair Lady (R2), 48:04

By this he meant any thinker from abroad (Paris, nine times out of ten) whose alembicated ideas were being taken up with more excitement than he thought they – or, I daresay, any ideas – were worth.

alembicated (adj) : (of a literary style) excessively refined; precious – source: Le pauvre Sokal