Word: badass
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...tests but can't explain why. The ornithologist can identify at 200 yards an exotic bird he's never seen in flight before. The psychologist who has catalogued the 10,000 expressions of which the human face is capable. Gladwell hangs with superstar car salesmen and emergency-room cardiologists, badass battlefield commanders and improv-comedy troupes. He even talks to speed daters. Says a disappointed woman, memorably, about a roomful of unsuccessful suitors: "They lost me at hello...
After two lost elections in a row, the question on every Democrat’s mind now is: Where are we going to find another badass like Bill Clinton...
...Badass political theorist Michael Sandel was spotted heading into Border Café with his family on Saturday, sporting a raincoat in place of his usual jacket-and-tie getup. Wait—so he doesn’t sleep in Sanders? . . . Not one, but two cars spun out of control at the same spot on Soldiers Field Road across the Charles early Sunday morning. Brake squeals and sirens interrupted the usual three a.m. sounds of vomiting fratguys and awkward “goodnights”... After several pundits floated her name as a potential Supreme Court nominee, Harvard Law School...
...must have been on PBS when my dad left the room. There she was, a 6-ft. 2-in. matronly woman with a warbling New England--inflected accent that Katharine Hepburn would have found snobby. And yet, even to my teenage brain, she was clearly a badass. She explained sides of beef by pointing to her own body. She tore at suckling-pig ribs with her giant bare hands. She never edited out any of her mistakes, showing you how to fix them, live with them or bluff. She dropped stuff on the floor, wiped it off and said, "Remember...
...that Nelson was a tiny blond sociopath whose viciousness frightened even his pals. "Pretty Boy" Floyd--Charley to his friends--was a Dust Bowl farm boy. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow come off as greedy, murderous children, not the doomed lovers of the movies. "Machine Gun" Kelly, despite his badass nickname, puked from nerves before his heists...