Word: bileful
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...able to adduce reasons to reject Ayn Rand's ideas in favor of their own. Objectivism, with its passionate rejection of age-old Judeo-Christian ideas in favor of reason, selfishness and unfettered capitalism, no doubt inspires antagonism in many people; but it deserves competent criticism, not just hysterical bile...
...return home to a slew of answering-machine messages. If you're the stage manager of a play, a reporter for the paper or if you were supposed to build a homeless shelter or organize the International Stomach Acid Convention that day, won't a few directors, editors and bile enthusiasts begin to wonder where you went...
...feeding frenzy by a smarmy coalition of Establishment Republicans, Democrats and newsies from left and right. I am an agnostic pro-choice woman living not a mile from Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs. There are no skinheads here. There is no hate here. The hate, venom and bile are inside the Beltway. I sent money to Buchanan this morning. You have helped me see the real error of my ways. CAROL WARD Colorado Springs...
...years before the election. He's been in office a while and enjoys high approval ratings. His likely opponent for re-election is the leader of the Senate Republicans--a crabby Kansan named Bob (played by Richard Dreyfuss as if he were a geyser about to gush right-wing bile). On the domestic front, the President has two things to care for: a daughter about Chelsea's age and a man-size libido. He's behaved himself but, in his budding desire for Sydney, hopes the nation might not mind if the President goes on a date...
...anyway) what is gentle and equivocal often outlasts what is tough and brazen. When in 1970 Company first opened--music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by George Furth--it was celebrated for its punch. Here was an innovative, hard-hitting musical that trafficked in booze and pot, bile and cynicism, promiscuity and adultery. Yet these are the aspects of Company that seem most dated a quarter-century later in a revival that has just come to Broadway, starring Boyd Gaines as Robert, the bachelor of many nicknames (Bobby, Robby, Bubby) who can't quite sort out whom he wants...