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But the moment she berates the "privilege" of those who couldn't afford to make a down payment on her carriage house, or invokes the "greed" of those making 125 percent of the mean per capita income, I'm with Hick, who said to Eleanor during a White House dinner, "God damn it--none of us ought to be wearing velvet dinner gowns these days."
Jim Saxton, R-N.J., jumps up and down in his chair "like a schoolboy" and crudely berates Reich while a bread-and-circuses audience laughs and applauds.
A review of Boutros Boutros-Ghali's new memoir berates the former U.N. secretary-general for his arrogance and condescension.
It also berates everyone, from early programmers to IBM to Microsoft to the Clinton administration, for lackadaisical response.
A Washington Post editorial berates Elizabeth Dole for her ditzy stand on drug policy.