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Repressed
Sitting on one's inner demon to keep it decorously immobilized, as practised by lifelong Presbyterians or anyone who attempts to exchange pleasantries with a tyrannical boss. |
Reputation
An edifice that takes half a lifetime to build and just one seismic blip to reduce to rubble. |
Resign
What a PR-sensitive organization forces a fired official to do so that it can profess 'deep regret' over the incident. |
Restaurant
In New York, Hollywood and London, a public conference room frequented by media heels making deals over meals. |
Retirement
The liberation of a captive butterfly just as its wings begin to crumble. |
Retirement Homes
A pleasant ghetto to which the elderly voluntarily commit themselves as a means of escape from inflated rents, muggers, diabolical children, loneliness and other pestilences of the world they formerly inhabited. |
Revisionist History
Dressing the past in the political fashions of the present; e.g., Robin Hood, who not long ago would have been hailed by academics as a progressive proponent of socialist wealth redistribution, now becomes a sociopathic, patriarchalist DWEM (Dead White European Male) and systematic despoiler of wildlife resources, with a phallocentrist affinity for violence and meat ingestion. |
Revolution
An attempt to stimulate new growth on an old tree by lopping off all its limbs. |
Revolutionary
An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor. |
Riot
A bloody rampage by overheated youths in response to bad news, like an unfavourable jury verdict, or good news, like a favourable jury verdict. |
