It crashed against the wall in the way only a biography of an obscure nineteenth-century politician could, which was with a satisfactory thud.

Mammoths roaming round in Siberia, the Greenhouse effect suddenly reversing, obscure politicians becoming statesmen, weird religions taking hold.

A few weeks ago, Mr. Diaz was an obscure politician in Nicaragua.

The 73-year-old President beat back a challenge by the candidate of the ruling Likud party, an obscure politician named Shaul Amor, to win a secret ballot, 63 to 49, with 7 abstentions and 1 absence.

Representative Jack Tanner of Michigan (Michael Murphy) is an obscure liberal Democratic politician who struggles to find a voice in the early 1988 Democratic primaries.

Everything, including the kitchen sink, has been thrown at an obscure politician in Alaska.

He quotes lots of obscure politicians, needles his adversaries in a good-humored way and absolutely cannot resist a one-liner.

Twenty-five years ago, an obscure far-right French politician named Jean-Marie Le Pen founded a movement called the National Front.

I was especially praised by my contact for my prediction -which came true in less than three months - that Pierre Mendes-France, an obscure politician to Americans, would become prime minister with a mandate to settle the war in Indochina.

Like the occasional obscure politician who turns up at a political convention as keynote speaker and steals the show, the relatively unknown Acri made an impression.