Word: boorishnesses
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...normally be reluctant to parse anyone's use, aside from David Duke's, of what my people now refer to as "the N word." But since I'm being paid to grapple with the subject, I would wager that Rock is making a point about how street culture celebrates boorish behavior, and how that can feed racist stereotypes, and how dispiriting that is. As with all great comedians--which is to say, as with all original thinkers--Rock's insights are beyond tidy labels such as "black," "white," "left," "right," "offensive" or "as harmlessly amusing as Friends." Unlike many...
HIRED. BOBBY KNIGHT, 60, preternaturally boorish and abusive basketball coach who was dismissed from Indiana University last September, after 29 years of service, for grabbing a student by the arm and violating a zero-tolerance behavior policy; as new head coach at Texas Tech, despite a faculty-written petition objecting to his appointment; in Lubbock, Texas...
...Rockwell Is Bleeding. "Sixty-three percent of American families are now considered dysfunctional," he boasts in the pilot. "That means we're the majority. We're normal." Without victim-speak, Titus looks at how Titus has become his screwed-up self in reaction to, and emulation of, his womanizing, boorish dad (a cacklingly exuberant Stacy Keach). For Titus, family is war, and it isn't afraid to drop its audiences into uncomfortable situations with no one-liners to save them, as when Titus has an aids scare and confronts the psychological legacy of his dad's own skirt chasing. Like...
...Rockwell Is Bleeding." "Sixty-three percent of American families are now considered dysfunctional," he boasts in the pilot. "That means we're the majority. We're normal." Without victim-speak, "Titus" looks at how Titus has become his screwed- up self in reaction to, and emulation of, his womanizing, boorish dad (a cacklingly exuberant Stacy Keach). For "Titus," family is war, and it isn't afraid to drop its audiences into uncomfortable situations with no one-liners to save them, as when Titus has an AIDS scare and confronts the psychological legacy of his dad's own skirt-chasing. Like...
...successful coach. He deserves another chance, they say, based on his record and his promise to control his temper. But do we really expect Bob Knight to change? He is who he is: a coach whose success is based on bullying and intimidating people. His style is rooted in boorish behavior, with which he psychologically terrorizes his players for his own benefit...