Word: cretin
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...These days, signatures do not matter as "nobody reads petitions and if someone does we signatories are a laughingstock", Magor says. He waits for his knuckles marked with cuts from a fistfight with "some cretin" to heal, so he could smash the one-time communist prison guard into pieces. The new era with its corrupt politicians makes him "throw up", but in the end fighting for it was worth...
...similarly confused young woman (Scarlett Johansson). Midway through the movie, Harris finds himself half-drunk in a private Tokyo karaoke room singing Roxy Music's More Than This to a group of passed-out Japanese salarymen less than half his age. Murray, the creator of Nick the SNL lounge cretin, never veers from character and never winks at the audience for sympathy. Instead, he turns the song into an awkward, agonizing moment of realization and regret. "That performance," says Hoffman, "is just unbelievable...
...with no vulnerability. So I requested DC allow some cosmetic changes--make him a bit less powerful, a lot more vulnerable physically." Austen's Superman can take a joke as well as a punch. He rags on his sparring partners for their lame trash talk: "What's next? 'Mindless cretin!' Or 'Had enough?' Or my personal favorite--'No one can stand before the might of--(your name here)." The tone is light and fresh and surprisingly funny. "Much of it is the fun of playing against his type," says Austen. "But much more of it is, without question, to upgrade...
...Bush is a Republican, and he speaks in a Texas drawl, and we are at Hahvahd. Which means, of course, that we are obliged to prove how much smarter we are than the cretin from Crawford. So we take our lead from the French (who, when it comes to snobbery, have us beaten) and call Bush’s “axis of evil” comments simplistic, uninformed, antagonistic, unilateralist and any other negative adjective that comes to mind...
JEAN ("I'M NOT A CRETIN") CHRETIEN OCCUPATION: Canadian Prime Minister BEST PUNCH: Nixed Black's bid for a seat in the British House of Lords with a 1919 document asking U.K. monarchs not to confer titles on Canadians...