Things pick up — for this reader, at least — with the arrival of weeds as a metaphorical stand-in for Commies and a lively deconstruction of the botano-apocalyptic "Day of the Triffids".
But single-brand stores and wholesalers have been let in, and the commies have kept calm.
John Roche, a Brandeis University professor who was then on the White House staff, said King had "thrown in with the Commies".
There is a danger of becoming hysterical about paedophilia and seeing it everywhere, like witches at Salem, or "Commies" in Hollywood during McCarthyism.
Not until much later could I connect the dots between a war against the Commies in a faraway jungle and Club Med's delightful fantasy of primitive life on a South Pacific island.
The furious complaints against the prize winner by a former minister of his and another essayist, Nariaki Nakayama, hardly help Mr Aso: Mr Nakamaya rants that the victory of General Tamogami's weak-kneed essay instead of his own is proof that the jury was hijacked by the pacifists and Commies in Japan's teacher's union.
On my father's side, the Commies in Bulgaria stole them from me.
Why, after declaring total victory over the "alien" commies in 1991 and putting the Cold War to bed for forever (or so it seemed then), did our military continue to strive for "global reach, global power" and what, with no sense of overreach or irony, it liked to call "full-spectrum dominance"?
Craig Yoe and his wife Clizia Gussoni scour old romance comics for stories about women who hate their boyfriends for wanting to be circus clowns, stories about women who fall in love with hippies, commies, wimps, or abusive brutes, and they put them in these awesome books.
The tests look to see how many guns are owned per citizen, how much freedom "libtards and other Commies" have, in addition to a multitude of other variables.
