Word: bitingly
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...rights. Her criticism is always painfully accurate, but rarely preachy or repetitive. Despite some of the musical near-misses she has encountered while pumping out a surging stream of albums, DiFranco remains innovative and consistent on To the Teeth. She proves that she has not lost her spicy political bite but rather provides her listeners with more to chew on than ever...
...pages of text with 251 footnotes reads like a lucid exploration of a developing medium, peppered with incisive sound-bite quotations from the New York Times' Tom Wicker and James Reston, Bill Moyers and Jack Valenti...
...That definitely has something to do with why I am so compelled to identify, organize, socialize--to be president of the BSA," she says, pausing over a bite of shrimp scampi at dinner recently in Lowell Dining Hall...
...newsroom drama, the Times remains one of America's top newspapers. While the paper seemed to sag during the past decade, it has regained some bite under the tutelage of Michael Parks, the Pulitzer prizewinning foreign correspondent who became editor in 1997. The paper often beat its Washington rivals in covering campaign-finance abuses last year, does solid coverage of Hollywood business, and is in the middle of a hard-hitting series on police corruption. Though its Sunday magazine remains lightweight, the spiky, liberal-leaning Book Review is winning raves...
...Morale is low - not because the Army is hard, but because it is so slow. Sergeants here bristle but rarely bite; privates a few weeks ahead of you are generous with their time, anecdotes and advice. But they are as angry as we are. Those on active duty want to get where?they are going after boot camp, Brazil or Germany or wherever. Reserves feel a sharper pain, though; two weeks down the drain like this seems time truly wasted, coming directly out of their civilian lives...