Word: bum
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...relate better to the redeeming qualities of the underdog who compensates for a lack of talent with a surplus of heart and determination. Most of us respect someone like Burress—the Giants’ best receiver all season despite his inability to practice because of a bum ankle—more than someone like the Patriots’ Rodney Harrison—a player whose desire to get an edge led him to use HGH and earn a reputation as a dirty player amongst his peers.While some would dismiss this love of the gutsy underdog as false hope...
There you have it, the utterly improbable central trauma that "explains" the rest of Dewey's life: his drive for the fame that can never compensate for his terrible guilt, the self-destructive drinking, drugging and sexual outlawry that sully his path to pop icon status, the bum musical trips - his adored brother may have been an authentic musical prodigy that Dewey dimly needs to emulate - that threaten his career. You've been here before, of course, with Walk the Line and Ray, to name only the most recent biopics about the trials and triumphs of pop-music icons. These...
...slipping and falling on the ice or something, you’re probably going to be more concerned with the elderly, people who might break their hip in a fall. The young and the healthy, yeah, you fall and end up with a sore shin and bruise on your bum, but your youth tends to protect you from more serious injuries.” There you have it: some good cover-up and a high pain tolerance should ward of the danger until your 50th reunion—just be sure to pack your shin guards when that time rolls...
...Cigarettes can do vicious things to good people. They make you stink. They make people self-centered as they interrupt conversations for a smoke break. They make generous people miserly as everyone and their mother tries to bum a smoke. They make nonsmokers into judgmental, disapproving assholes...
...even dance, despite the fact that nothing else is going on; instead, she jerkily moves around the stage, rubbing her cheeks against sparkly skull-shaped microphones and looking as if she’s in arthritic pain. The only redeeming moment comes when she wiggles her bum for the camera, but the wiggling is brief and, well, old news. —Jenny...