Word: awfulness
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...this strain of modesty - sometimes even false modesty - is becoming rarer and rarer in American life. Braggadocio and trash talk are the rule these days. Once upon a time an athlete who hit a homer to win the game in the bottom of the ninth would say, "Aw, I was just lucky to hit that curve." But Muhammad Ali and Joe Namath changed all that. With Ali's "I am the greatest" speeches and Joe Namath's confident predictions of victories, sports etiquette was altered forever. In the NBA finals, Shaq pounded his opponents in print as much...
...know there are plenty of people out there (including lots of concerned mothers) who consider Affleck?s clean-cut, aw-shucks shtick a welcome reprieve from the sultry seductiveness of many Hollywood heartthrobs. It may not even be a shtick - I?m not sure Affleck is that good of an actor - he may really be just that benign in real life. But maybe he could do with a little bit of dirt under those nails, a few lines of concern around his eyes. Maybe he should check back with us in 25 years...
...Petty and Earnhardt, each of whom won the season-long Winston Cup title a record seven times, who had the largest legions of fans. King Richard's subjects loved his laconic aw-shucks manner and the way it contrasted with his ferocity behind the wheel. Ironhead's followers reveled in their hero's orneriness. Jeff Lancaster, owner of Lancaster's BBQ, a restaurant and car-racing shrine in Mooresville, N.C., explained it last week, the walls around him covered with souvenirs of racing giants: "He was the John Wayne of NASCAR. He was a kick-ass, take-names kinda...
...Monday, the anticipation - and the low expectations that are clearly part of Bush's formula. Tuesday, the payoff, a long, funny, aw-shucks tour de force that actually sounded like Bush could have written it himself (unlike that beautiful but somewhat ill-fitting inaugural). Wednesday morning, the budget hit Congress and the speech reviews hit the papers; Bush's approval ratings, and the approval ratings for the tax cut, went up among the largely Republican viewers. Thursday, the budget was the major papers' top story of choice, and in the House, Republicans sprinted forward with the tax-cut ball...
...emotional part of me is, aw good, we screwed it up. The Board of Ed must be really pissed," she says...