Word: cowardly
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...Coward once observed that television wasn't something to watch - it was something to be on. This take partly explains this current obsession that nonentities can rise above their station in life if only they can be on a TV show, be it "Jerry Springer" or "Divorce Court." The current popular location for self-exposure is "Survivor." Unlike many of the literati, I find certain saving graces with the program. For one thing, the very word "Survivor" is now less likely to conjure up the image of a mediocre '80s band providing music for mediocre Sylvester Stallone movies...
...Jersey resident whose brother Tom was on the Pan Am flight, was quick to do so. "Al-Megrahi's conviction leads straight to the doorsteps of Gaddafi," he said after viewing the verdict on a closed-circuit broadcast in New York with dozens of other relatives. "He is a coward. He is a rogue leader. And Libya is a rogue state...
...announced that he had changed his views, saying that he "did not understand the language" of Proposition 209, which he had so eloquently supported in 1995. This radical departure from his previous position, as the National Review put it, "makes him either look like an idiot or a coward...
...First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams warn Drudge that he, not Miramax, would bear responsibility for airing the manuscript. But on Friday an embarrassed Brown issued a terse press release canceling the book. Connolly, a true believer in the right wing-conspiracy theory of Clinton's impeachment, called Brown "a coward" for abandoning it. Brown insisted it would have been axed anyway. The controversy is over for now, but while books on the Clinton scandal continue to pop up on the best-seller lists, the finger pointing will continue, and all involved would be wise to watch their eyes...
...actor was virtually born one: great-nephew of actress Ellen Terry and second cousin of designer Gordon Craig. By 21, in Chekhov and Coward, he was a London fixture. He directed and starred in the renowned 1935 Romeo and Juliet (the cast included Peggy Ashcroft, Edith Evans and Alec Guinness), advancing Olivier's career by swapping roles (Romeo and Mercutio) in mid-run. Later he championed bold young playwrights, directing Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, starring in Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning, Edward Albee's Tiny Alice and Edward Bond's Bingo...